Dear Parents Of Lowell High School - 1584 Words

Dear Parents of Lowell High School, â€Å"My parents don’t care about my education† is something you hear from a lot of students. If you ask them why they would say such a thing, they might say â€Å"My parents are too busy at work† or â€Å"My parents just don’t have the time†. Sometimes this is not actually the case; it is not that parents do not care about how their child does in school, it is just that they do not know how to show that they are concerned. Parents are unsure how to react to their children’s academic performance, or what to say when there is something wrong at school. Since parents are always clueless to their child’s school life, they should get more involved with and become more aware of their child’s education. One problem that students face is that their parents only praise or reward their children when they get high grades. One example of this is evident in Doing School by Denise Clark Pope. Kevin Romoni, a student at Faircrest High, always aims to get high marks. He says, â€Å"My goal is a 3.7 or higher†¦ My dad will give me fifty bucks if I get it-even though 50 bucks isn’t really that much†¦ Do I have any other goals?† (Pope 11). To Kevin, the fifty dollars is one of his only goals in order to do well in school. However, this behavior seen by Kevin’s dad is actually affecting his development. According to Jim Taylor Ph. D. on Psych Today, children who were often praised or rewarded â€Å"more cautious in their responses to questions, had less confidence in theirShow MoreRelatedEssay Edgar Allan Poe3220 Words   |  13 Pagesjoyless existence carved out by his writings is one of lost love, mental anguish, and the premature withering of his subjec ts. Poe wrote in a style that characterized the sufferings he endured throughout in his pitiful life. From the death of his parents while he was still a child, to the repeated frailty of his love life, to the neuroses of his later years, his life was a ceaseless continuum of one mind-warping tragedy after another. From the very dawning of his existence, Edgar Allan Poe livedRead MoreFactors Affecting the Learners’ Achievement in the Alternative Learning System (Als) Programs15448 Words   |  62 PagesFACTORS AFFECTING THE LEARNERS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN THE ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM (ALS) PROGRAMS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School St. Peter’s College Iligan City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Education Major in Educational Management by AVEMAR TODIO GONZAGA March 2010 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis entitled â€Å"FACTORS AFFECTING THE LEARNERS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN THE ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM (ALS) PROGRAMS† prepared and submittedRead MoreLangston Hughes Research Paper25309 Words   |  102 Pagesthe oppressed brown people of the world and hated his father for mistreating his Mexican employees. Witnessing his fathers tyranny made Langston sick enough to require hospitalization. By the end of the summer, Langston was glad to return to school in the United States. On the journey to his mothers house in Cleveland, Ohio, he recognized he was back in his native land when a white man in the trains diner car refused to eat at the same table with him, and a fountain clerk in St. Louis refusedRead MoreDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pagescan I invigorate those who feel outdated and left behind?† â€Å"How do I help the ‘survivors’ of a downsizing pick up the pieces and move on?† â€Å"How do I help people with very different agendas and philosophies work together, especially during periods of high stress and uncertainty?† Anyone tempted to dismissively argue that the answers to these questions are â€Å"common sense† would do well to recall Will Rogers’ pithy observation: â€Å"Common sense ain t common.† In addition, the research reported in the Introduction