Thursday, February 16, 2012
Mo' Money Mo' Problems
After reading the article, I was kind of annoyed because I do not agree with it at all. Well, maybe to some extent but I do not believe it all. When I was younger I did not have a lot of money and I was still in the Gifted and Talented classroom for 2nd and 3rd grade and only got out of it because I moved and my new school did not offer it. Not to mention, was told when I 4 and ready to enter Pre-K, that I was "too smart" for kindegarten. Just like many people in the class have said, it comes down to parental involvement. If a child is doing nothing but sitting in front of the tv all day after school waiting for some adult-interaction they are not working their minds as much as a child who has their parents pick them up from school. People are talking about single head households... that is what I grew up in and my mother still made sure we were doing our homework and doing it correctly at that. We were not allowed to do anything until all of our work was complete and Heaven forbid we want to miss a day of school. If we were not running 102.7 degree temperature... we were IN SCHOOL! Parents are more to blame for the huge gap in the knowledge and learn than money. Broke people, like me learn to accommodate their lifestyles to what they can afford and train their children in the same way. In my opinion, money has nothing to do with it!
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You are very right, there are many people such as yourself who overcome the ideas and barriers that others have already assumed just because of family income. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Vanessa. I grew up in a single parent household. My mom did not have a lot of money, but I always did well in school. My mom stressed how important school was. As I got older I was given more opportunities that as I look back I took for granted. This was no fault of a lack of money, some of it was my young ingnorance. But...that being said, growing up in a single parent household is very different from how I see my daughters life. When my mom was tired, that was it, I entertained myself, watched tv, or played nintendo. In my dauthers life, there is always one of us to do something with. Even playing a board game is more interation and learning then some kids get in a single parent household. LIke the article says, there is no easy fix.
ReplyDeleteI agree it comes to parental support.
ReplyDeleteI came from a single mom family with four sisters and we are all doing ok. Did good in school too. But not because my mom pushed us or taught us that education is important. We just wanted to strive to do better for us and for our future kids, for them to have more then we did. I think it is all about attitude. There are kids from poor and rich families that have good and bad attitudes about working or striving to do better
ReplyDeleteI agree that parent involvement is huge! This is actually osomething that scares me to death when I think about having my own classroom. I already get so frusutrated at just the thought of a parent that doesn't care what their child is doing.
ReplyDeleteI always love how you get fired up! I agree that even though a household is poor, it is no excuse for a parent to neglect their child, but it does happen. It happens in households that aren't poor. I think that even though we have a gap between children, it will always be there. We are never going to have every student in our classroom at the same level at the same time. We as teachers have to learn to accommodate for those levels and help our students. Studying the so called "reason" for the gap is not going to help these students, but their teachers can! That is what we are here for.
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