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Article #141: Is Your Child Having Trouble in School?

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Many parents spend a great deal of time and excel in their learning. For those
and energy trying to ensure that their students the school environment meets the
children have the best education needs of their learning styles and
possible. Parents help with homework, motivates them towards success in their
provide many extra-curricular educational experience. The school system
opportunities and keep in touch with the is not bad for these students, it is
teachers and school in order to help good. However the very nature and
their child to be successful. However structure of the school system means it
when all is said and done, it is the is only able to meet the needs of some
child who needs to be able to learn and styles of learning, and personality
pass the curriculum requirements. traits of its students. For a fairly
Some parents themselves may have sailed large number of students to get through a
through Did you know that the school school day is an achievement in itself.
system is only able to meet 50% of Intelligence and motivation to learn are
student learning needs? not the issue for them, but the school
That's right! - only 50% of the student structure and environment itself. An
population is in an environment at school example of such a student was Albert
which enables them to be successful Einstein. He found school incredibly
learners. boring, as the tools of learning in those
The reason for this is not because of bad days were to do with repeating and
teachers. learning by rote. He learnt more from the
There are many excellent, dedicated reading he did outside of school, and
teachers in schools, whose life's work talking with interesting people he met,
and passion is to educate their students than from school itself. He spent most of
to the best of their ability. Teachers the time in his classes day dreaming. The
want to see their students successful, system had no room for creativity and
that is why they have given years to imagination, or allowing him to learn
training and service. It is not the fault about what interested him. There was no
of the teachers that many students do not provision in his school system for people
reach their potential in learning. who thought differently.
It is not a result of bad parenting.their Many students today, whose learning
own school experience and been successful styles are not catered for in the school
in the academic requirements for system, are prone to be dismissed or
graduation, and gone on to further labeled as lazy, unfocused, and
education. Isn't it reasonable to expect unintelligent, disorganized, ADHD, or
that their children would follow the same have a learning disability. School for
path and achieve good grades? For some many of these students is an endurance
children, yes it is a reasonable test, which some fail. The school
expectation, and many, of course, do experience can devastate their self
follow in their parent's footsteps. confidence and self esteem, due to their
However this may not be true for every inability to conform or adapt to the
child, even in the same family. I, expectations of the system, and those
myself, was a good student, enjoyed my around them. Yet these same students in
school experience and I love to learn. I later life can become very successful
went on to become a teacher for over because of their entrepreneurial spirit,
twenty years in the school system, was a their creativity, their ability to think
Principal of two schools, and outside of the box, and view the world
successfully pioneered an independent from a different perspective.
school. All my three children are If your child is having trouble at
intelligent and have been given equal school, it may not be a reflection your
opportunities with regard to their parenting, their teacher or the school.
education. Out of the three, only one is Your child may be trying to learn in an
following in my footsteps. environment that conflicts with his
Was I less diligent with two of my natural aptitude and learning style. For
children, didn't I help them? Didn't I your child it could be like trying to
give them the support they needed to be learn to swim in an ocean of sand! Look
successful at school? Of course I did! outside of 'normal' expectations, and see
Were their teachers uncaring and the situation through the eyes of your
unsupportive of their education? Not at child. You may be surprised!!!
all! The problem is as parents we can't .........and why not do a little research
go to school for them. Sometimes it seems in to the school experience of Albert
parenting would be easier if we could! Einstein, and many other notable figures
Is the school system bad? in our history? I think you might see
There are many excellent schools, in things from a different perspective.
which some students are able to thrive






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