Academic Success Due For Home Issues

These statistics shows that not having two prominent parents in the child’s household can affect them thought-out high school. Students with divorced parents often have to miss school to visit the parent farther away. This puts a major obstacle in the student’s schoolwork and having to learn material not always taught to them. Due to having two houses, this may cause the student to leave books and homework behind. This puts major stress on the child to become incredibly organized and constantly struggling to remember where they placed their belongings. By having two households, it begins to create a problem of losing homework and books within the homes. However, parents need to be involved with their children’s education to understand what support is needed. When a child is struggling, parents need to make sure they receive extra help and that both parent are involved with the teacher. While a rough divorce is going on in a child’s life, their education can be controlled if both parents work together and handle the situation.

Given, not all homes are the Cleaver family, but if a person really wants an education, they should try to concentrate on just that-their education. Parents have a huge responsibility in that if they have children in a single-parent home, the parents attitude must be encouraging for the child.

Improving communication between schools and home by providing teachers, parents, and other school staff with an opportunity to discuss individual student needs and strategies on how to appropriately meet them

As poverty happens, parents are unable to send their children to school due to high cost of school fees and they feel that jobs would not be available even if the children went to school. Frequent truancy throughout the school year caused the children to miss educational information and skills which would be useful for them in the later life. Children who were truant often shows a lower achievement, which fostered an academic frustration causing further truancy. However, poverty are one of the main causes of truancy other than illness, family problems and lack of motivation in the child. For family who are struggling with poverty, a child adds an extensive stress to the family, as parents needs to fulfil the child’s wants and needs. According to McLoyd (1990) describes that families with lower income or facing poverty is associated with anxiety and depression. With these qualities, may cause part of the parent to be authoritative and generally unsupportive towards their children. As parents who are authoritative may promote the use of disciplinary approaches rather than other approaches such as reasoning and negotiating. Children who are brought up by authoritarian style of parenting

It is also a very big work and responsibly for teachers. Guidance, attention, knowledge sharing and many other teaching efforts should be applied toward students learning and development. In some cases teachers can’t do much to help their students to make right choices or to change their behavior, because family always stand in first place, and how they are being treated at home reflect their competence toward

I chosed this topic, because I realised many children can’t accomplish their dreams because of their situation in their homes. My

Equally important, children not only are often neglected, in addition these children are exposed to harsh and complex environments/family structures. Children in these environments often struggle in school due to distractions. Distractions such as hunger, neglect, and family structures reduce academic motivation. Statistics prove that children in these harsh family structures struggle more. To illustrate, childtrends.org states “Children are much more likely to be poor if they live in single-mother families than if they live in married-couple families.” . This example proves that a harsh environment can affect a child, it is harsh on their ability to thrive in school.

There are various element that may disturb students’ attainment within the classroom that may include the students’ social forces such as the environment and family structure. The Family Resource Center (FRC) is integral because “The primary goal of these centers is to remove nonacademic barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success. The mission is to enhance students’ ability to succeed in school by developing and sustaining partnerships that promote early learning and successful transition to school, academic achievement and well-being, and graduation and transition into adult life”(2016) .

While the American public school system educates the majority of students today, a fast growing population is beginning to accept homeschooling as an adequate alternative. Anyone with kids desires only the best education and experiences for them. Those who face this decision have to take in the plentiful list of differences and decide which will suit their family best. For years, most people saw homeschooling as an ineffiecent replacement to the government-provided schools already in existence. However, in the last ten years, studies have proved that homeschooling well equipps a student for college and beyond, changing the minds of many(http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2012/06/01/home-schooled-teens-ripe-for-college?page=2). In order to make this crutial decision between public or home school, one must account for the social and extracurricular opportunites, the educational aspect, and what role the family plays in education.

When children have issues at home, these issues affect other aspects of life, such as, education, mental health, and social abilities. Tendencies that are different from social norms, may manifest themselves in a student’s education and grades. Parents recklessly shove children into relationships, forcing them to assimilate. This may be very problematic and detrimental to a child’s mental and emotional health. Often, parents do not admit to needing help with parenting and resolving issues. A common belief is that problems will work themselves out and it is just a matter of adjustment, this is usually false.

I believe the impact of socioeconomic status highly influences a child’s learning. It is sad that a child is effected by their home life, but this is reality. Before this year, I would have stated that most student in a stably home with two parent do not have a lot of behavior and emotional issues but as of today, I know that this does not matter. They are still effected because of the type of environment they are in. I have learned this from experience a child socioeconomic status helps but it does not prevent them from being a great student. Children from all walks of life could have a hard time socially, so when comparing the family lives of children with one parent verses children with two, the only disadvantage is the missing parent in

As teacher we are geared to help all students regardless of their home environment by helping them succeed to their full potential with guidance and tools. As some parents do not take the time to understand what is needed from home to help the student accomplish in their academics, the teacher should take the position of being the students mentor by checking in on them weekly and allowing them to understand they are here for them whenever they need help. In addition, the teacher should send a monthly progress note of their student performance and tools they can used at home to help their student continue their success. As for the parents, it is understandable to be busy with daily living situation, but their student’s education should be their many focus. For the students who parents are not actively involved, the teacher/school should provide the parents with bi-weekly survey to complete of any concerns and/or question they have for their student. This survey can sent home with the student, via phone and/or email. If the parent fails to complete the survey, the school/teacher should try to contact the parent to complete the survey. If the parent continues to fail to be reach, a home visit to the student’s home should be conducted as it shows the parent, the school is concern and they need to take action on their child

Parents should understand that children act out for attention, therefore it is imperative to put as much emphasis on good behavior as bad behavior since often time good behavior goes unnoticed. Whether a child attends a traditional school or is home schooled, ultimately the parents and not the teacher are responsible for their behavior. Teachers devote hours dealing with misbehaved children, since parents failed to perform their job. When I hear a parent saying they could never homeschool their children since they would not listen to them, I feel sorry for these poor teachers who has to undertake these parents’ responsibility to correct their child’s

Surprisingly, there are a variety of people that do homeschooling. Both people from high-income to low-income families. There are parents that even have doctorates or even a diploma in a general subject. Families with either one or two parents and differing ethnics and religious or secular inducement choose to homeschool (Ray 2002). Researchers come to the conclusion that homeschoolers, for the most part, have free reign when it comes to their homework and school pace that they feel that suits them the best.

I believe family engagement and student advocacy and access are dire for having a successful school year and having successful student outcomes. Building relationships with students and them having access to materials, learning goals, and necessary people throughout the building is a priority. Students do not learn from teacher they do not trust or respect, so making yourself accessible to students build the relationships they need to success in the classroom. My students and I have built very strong relationships through learning together, struggling together, and overcoming obstacles throughout the beginning of the school year. Although learning and reaching learning goals are the biggest priority, teaching students how to correctly handle situations and working on social emotional growth is important to incorporate into the classroom. Not only are teachers there to foster a deep love of knowledge and learning but to teach students how to be productive members of society. This means teaching to the whole child. An extremely important part of that whole is a child’s mental and emotional state. Not all students have these innate skills and must be taught to identify their emotions and learn to deal with them appropriately. This must be taught to teachers before they enter a classroom. A teacher will be much more successful if students are able to regulate and handle their own emotions. Access and advocacy are necessary elements in a successful teacher’s classroom because