Synthesis Essay

The involvement of parents in the school is a necessary one for their children to have a higher rate of success in school. How educated the parent is, what are their social class and involvement are important factors that do help develop a student’s behavior at school. Issues like social class give students an upper hand that will increase their likelihood of achieving at school. For example, in one article dealing with income and social class states,” children with educated more educated mother were still expected to score higher on the reading and math sections in Kindergarten” (Source 5, 1028). This is interesting because not every student starts at the same level, sometimes there are students whose background leads them to have higher probability

While at PBIS I did with some students that had some signs that there was neglect at home. One in particular was always drowsy and exhausted, and had mixed stories of whether he was staying at a hotel or other locations. It is difficult to state whether he was dealing with neglect, but his complicated home life was affecting his academic learning. This student was also a minority and as the social class article mentions,” cumulative family experience do not account for racial/ethnic disparities in academic skills. Large and growing differences in academic skills remain between white and historically disadvantaged groups (Source 5, 1031). These two articles relate to the advantages of the educated higher social income individuals, and the disadvantages of students from violent or neglectful homes. There is also question in how successful parental involvement is on student both academically and behaviorally? One article even states that," Parents prevent children’s behavioral problems when they vol-unteer at school, help their children with their homework, and check their children’s home- work (Source 10,