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Failing School
"How can someone so smart fail school?" a parent might ask their child. You can't work out the reason though are eager to help your child. Bright adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems often manage to keep up their grades and create the illusion that all is well. When those grades begin to slip, or suddenly drop precipitously, this serves as an urgent warning to parents that the teen who was furiously treading water is now drowning. Underachieving adolescents often find themselves in a vicious cycle. Pay attention on your child's school success, and not only academic one but also the behavioral aspect. As a parent you should remember yourself and remind to your youngster that learning well means earning well later and if he or she would miss classes or even would like to give up school it won't do good for his or her future life. Cycle of School Failure: Poor grades - Negative reaction by teachers/parents - drop in self-esteem - Struggle to catch up - Worse grades - Teachers begin to "give up" on the child - another drop in self-esteem - apathy - Worse grades... Failing school can lead to social impairment if the child is held back, economic impact if the child drops out or cannot continue his or her education, and emotional impact as the cycle of failure diminishes the adolescent's self-esteem. If your adolescent is failing in school, avoiding homework, skipping classes, or threatening to drop out, or simply not achieving at his or her potential, there are probably underlying behavioral and emotional problems causing the academic issues. Be attentive trying to understand what is wrong with your child. With the help of teachers and tutors, psychologists and his or her friends try to realize what problems he or she lately had in schooling or in relations with other pupils, what troubles he or she could have with lessons or maybe something had happened in his or her personal life that could affect that way. If your child is frequently absent or truant from school, he or she is statistically at highest risk for dropping out of high school. If your child has repeated a year due to failing grades, he or she is at even higher risk of dropping out before finishing his or her education. Remember about all the options you can arrange: specialized boarding schools can often offer your child individualized instruction that matches your child's learning style and needs.
The National Dropout Prevention Center has identified many strategies that have had positive effects on the dropout rate. Among them are:
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