Many minority parents are uneducated and have problems with speaking English. As the result, they’re usually work many long hours in challenging and low paying jobs and this take away their time from their family at home. Without constant guidance and monitoring from the parents, kids tend to slack off and not focus on doing well in school. This view can be confirm by study indicating that low-income parents are often themselves low academic achievers are less likely to expect their children to go to college, and therefore are less likely to be involved with their child’s education (Nguyen, 2016, Chapter 8; slide 21). To make matter worst, minorities children have higher chances of growing up in a one-parent families. One research on the decline of two-parent families shows that in 2010 there was 66% of children under 18 who live with both parents, down from 85% in 1970. The factor that are more alarming is that these children that are from one-parent families are more likely to develop behavior problems in school, to drop out of school, to get arrested, and to have physical and emotional health issues. So these minority children are facing huge uphill battle in term of getting supports and involvements from their parents in order to succeed in school, unlike their white counterparts who have parents that are more involve (Henslin, 2010,
Many minority parents are uneducated and have problems with speaking English. As the result, they’re usually work many long hours in challenging and low paying jobs and this take away their time from their family at home. Without constant guidance and monitoring from the parents, kids tend to slack off and not focus on doing well in school. This view can be confirm by study indicating that low-income parents are often themselves low academic achievers are less likely to expect their children to go to college, and therefore are less likely to be involved with their child’s education (Nguyen, 2016, Chapter 8; slide 21). To make matter worst, minorities children have higher chances of growing up in a one-parent families. One research on the decline of two-parent families shows that in 2010 there was 66% of children under 18 who live with both parents, down from 85% in 1970. The factor that are more alarming is that these children that are from one-parent families are more likely to develop behavior problems in school, to drop out of school, to get arrested, and to have physical and emotional health issues. So these minority children are facing huge uphill battle in term of getting supports and involvements from their parents in order to succeed in school, unlike their white counterparts who have parents that are more involve (Henslin, 2010,