identify three explanations for the underachievement of working class pupils?
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First, the difference in attainment between pupils in independent and state schools.  This is said to be much wider in the UK than in other similar countries.\n\nSecond, the difference in attainment between good and bad state schools is also massive.  The bad state schools are almost always in working class areas.\n\nThird, parental expectations and parental attitudes.  Working class pupils are less likely to have parents who have been to university.  They are more likely to have parents who have themselves underachieved at school.\n\nFinally, the UK has had a history of middle class people forcing working class people to send their children to school, against their will.  When compulsory schooling was first introduced, it was intended as a liberal measure to help the working class but was often resented by the very people that it was intended to help.  At the time, many working class people would rather have sent their children to work rather than to school.  The response of the state was to prosecute and fine working class parents.  This resentment of schools, held by working class people, remains to this day.  Compare and contrast with most third world countries, in which education is seen as a great privilege.  Poor people in these countries will make massive sacrifices to allow their children to have an education because they see education as an escape-route from poverty.  Comprehensive schools in poor areas of the UK would be doing a much better job if more British working class parents took a similar attitude.
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Younger people aren't as educated.
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For a 13-14 year old at their correct level, 5 hours a day is an average working day.  How does a young teenager get motivated?  What inspires him or her to work better? As an educator for that age group, I'd think the following should work...\n1. The child needs a goal.\n2. The child has to want a goal. The child needs a right attitude. \n3. The child needs to know when he or she is going to get there. \n4. The child needs to set a way of getting there. \n\nAdded to this, if the educator (teacher or parent) offers positive feedback, clear options, and sustained appreciation, then there is no looking back for the child. Remember, well-motivated students have always succeeded in Higher Education and will continue to do so: the challenge has always been to stimulate, engender and enhance the motivation of those students whose enthusiasm for learning cannot be taken for granted.
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Lack of education. Teachers lately feel Students should have good self esteem and that education is secondary.\n\nSo we'll end up with alot of cocky morons who can't spell.
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There are a ton of reasons!\n\nAlways late to work\n\nNot completing assigned tasks\n\nAssigned tasks are done incorrectly\n\nRude to the Instructor or the students\n\nNot abiding by the school's rules\n\nEtc.
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Uneven. \n\nThomas Edison said  genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Most teachers will tell you the same thing, or quote him.\n\nSmart students tend to get better grades than dull ones, but lots of smart students get bored or lazy and flunk. Dull students with good work ethics can succeed. The kids in the middle can go either way.\n\nA good work ethic and the ability to focus on a subject for long periods of time are much better indicators of scholarly success than a high IQ.\n\nExactly how long you have to focus depends on the problem; a word problem in algebra may take 10 minutes, a Ph. D. thesis 10 months.
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Are you wanting to know the effects of self esteem on children in the classroom?\n\nStudents who have low self esteem are less likely to participate in the classroom because they do not have confidence in their answers.\n\nThey are often the victims of bullies and do not feel valuable enough to stand up for themselves by telling the kids to stop or even letting someone know about the problem.
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Unsociable behaviour\nPoor grades\ndirespect\nNot seeing evidence of growth and learning\nimmaturity
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Because of the Achievement Gap.  You can read about it on PBS.\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/closingtheachievementgap/
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Inexperience and immaturity.
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I feel very suspicious about it. Everyone of my age can see that standards of education are lower than they were forty years ago: children can barely read, write or do arithmetic, let alone read a map, name a handful of British heroes or whistle a few bars of a piece of classical music. Yet the results of all the tests, from the ones that five year olds have to do right up to the A levels, go up and up and up,  rising relentlessly. I believe that the tests are falsified.
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It's a combination of things. Some who fail to preform in school are actually refusing to preform--because they refuse to conform--in which case someone needs to sell them on school and school needs to be differentiated for them.\nGet that these kids already have issues.  They are bored, delinquency looks fun.  \n\nOthers who struggle and fail may become delinquent due to self esteem. Traditionally, schools are set up to be so competative and even when kids like these make strides their success is diminished by their peers who do better.\nAgain, kids like this would do better if education was differentiated and we didn't force him to be compared to others but to his own milestones.
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"A 1979 Carnegie study ("Small Futures: Children, Inequality, and the Limits of Liberal Reform", Richard de Lone principal investigator) found that a child's future to be largely determined by social status, not brains. Consider Bobby and Jimmy, two second-graders, who both pay attention in the classroom, do well, and have nearly identical I.Q.s. Yet Bobby is the son of a successful lawyer; Jimmy's works infrequently as custodial assistant. Despite their similarities, the difference in the circumstances to which they were born makes it 27 times more likely that Bobby will get a job that by time he is in late 40s will pay him an income in the top tenth of all incomes in this country. Jimmy had about one chance in eight of earning even a median income."
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1.  lack of training\n2.  lack of skill\n3.  lack of desire
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At the risk of sounding like a preacher, let me say that you shouldn't be studying for any reason except to learn, that is enough. Never work harder on pleasing others than you do on learning what you want to. I realize the current educational system is not much more that a cookie cutter to stamp out as many of the same copies as possible of the same kids. Because of this many of today's young people tend to feel \nnon-unique. For this reason they seek to gain the respect, or gratification of others often at the expense of their own. It is good to want to do well, and it is also nice to get some positive feed-back if you achieve. But never give up your dreams, your needs or your self-respect to achieve any goal. If you do you have become that non-unique person, the one who thinks his/her existence is based on how well they please others. Always do the best you can at whatever you do, that way, even if you fail, you will know you did your best and will have no reason for shame or self pity. You can't be yourself if you imitate someone else.
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Lack of education and understanding. I feel our schools and society fail miserably to prepare students for life on the outside. When I finally got out on my own I didn't have a clue how to obtain an apartment, phone or utilities. I didn't know how to shop for bargains, balance a checkbook or manage my money. I was raised to beleive that if you work hard you will do well. That is not necessarilly the case. Life is competitive. You either choose to compete or you don't, however, we are not all endowed with equal abillities. Handicaps are not always visible. Some people seem to have been born with everythiong going for them. Others seem to never get a break. I am a healthy middle aged individual. All I have ever wanted is to be able to earn a moderate living. This I have accomplished but it is not a secure living nor is it moderate to everyone's standards. According to most people I have a moderate house, 2 used cars and the abilities to pay the bills and still have a little left over however I make twice as much as the average individual. There are many things I could do without, such as the second car and all expenses incured by it, my multimedia system including my computer, tv's, vcrs'dvds, cell phones... And then, there's all my other belongings such as boats, bikes, fancy clothes, toys, gadgets, dining out, nightclubs and all the expenses incurred therein as well. All this and I live alone! I know many familys with four generations living under the same roof just to survive. Now, here is the point, would I be willing to share it all if I knew I could get a family or even an individual off the street? Would you?\n I think the biggest cause of poverty is a lack of understanding, a willingness to turn a blind eye.\n Laziness? Yes, I feel laziness is the root cause of poverty, not on behalf of the impoverished but on behalf of all of us who continue to allow it to go on, all of us who feel someone else will do something about it.\n How do we fix it? Seek those who have not, find out why not and help them to overcome.\n Put and end to beurocracy, pork barrel programs, illicit foreign aid, tax evaders and gougers so we can have the money it will take to help.\n Teach our schools to focus more on 'Life Economics' and make it a requirement. Identify the individual talents of children and guide them along the right path for them. Don't penalize and ridicule them because they may not be good at math, taking tests or sports. Stop being so damned two dimensional and realise there is a universe of possibilities awaiting all of us if we could only recognise the abillities of all individuals istead of a stereotyped few. Please forgive my longwinded answer but your's was a question worthy of the time. May we all prevail.
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Instill a sense of work ethic and self confidence. Sounds easy enough huh? Let me break it down.......\n1. Read to them daily\n2. Stay involved in their education\n3. Support their teachers\n4. Do homework with them\n5. Positive Reinforcement\n6. Make school a priority in the home and their life\n7. Set aside time every day for school work. The same amount everyday no matter how much homework they do or do not have.\n8. Keep education going throughout the summer with fun education settings like camps or sports. \n9. Keep them physically active. Video games and TV shorten a child's attention span making school more difficult\n10. Keep them on a low sugar diet. Healthy eating aids in memory and concentration.\n\nHope this helps!