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At-risk students. False and real reasons for failure.

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At-risk students

Students give various reasons for failing at school, dropping out or otherwise being at-risk for those things.

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WHAT ARE THE FALSE “REASONS” FOR  STUDENT FAILURE?   

1. “I’m stupid.”
2. The teacher hates me.
3. I was never any good at school.
4. etc.
Wrong.
Students make mistakes about their education simply because they don’t have the best information about themselves to make the right decisions.
They simply don’t have the experience or perspective to see the root cause of being challenged at school as being a lack of self-knowledge.  

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

They will not consider self-knowledge at all, let alone think that it is the cause of their frustrations.

Often students think they are not good at something when they just don’t know how to approach it. 

WHAT ARE THE REAL REASONS THEY ARE AT-RISK?

Continue reading HERE at Dropout to Dean’s List.
AND…
Find out the 20 Ways Parents Can Identify At-Risk Students, HERE.
-Frank
 
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Fidgety kids–The "real" reason.

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The “real” reason for fidgetation (!)Fidgety kid
FIDGETY KIDS (PART THREE)
I’ve published two posts on fidgety kids recently. (You can find links to them below.)
Here’s another opinion by pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom writing in The Huffington Post.

She (or her editor) charcterized this–lack of movement in everday life–as the ‘real” reason kids fidget so much.
I think  its an accurate observation but the other reasons from the earlier posts are legit too.
Here’s a link to her article–which originally appeared on Balanced and barefoot.com
Fidgety kids part 3!
And here are the other two posts
Fidgety Boys, school and achievement (published may 27)
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Fidgety boys and how they learn. (published May 29)
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Do you have kids like this?
What’s your take?
Comment below!
Frank

 

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Fewer U.S. H.S Grads Opt for College. Are you one of them?

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Fewer U.S high school grads opt for college.

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It doesn’t matter if you aren’t….at least, not yet.

What matters is…

Are your talents, gifts and abilities developed best in college or not?
Is college the right place or the wrong place for YOU?

Never mind statistics.

Never mind anybody else.

And never mind what your friends and parents say, either.

(Well, to a degree!)

Do you need to go to college (or university) or is that the wrong place for you?

THE REAL PROBLEM ISN’T THAT KIDS DON’T GO TO COLLEGE

The real problem is that some people who DO go, should NOT go and then they either drop out or switch programs and lose a year or two in the process.

And some people who don’t go, SHOULD GO.

Years later they play the “I shoulda, coulda, woulda” game.

The real problem is that many young people have no idea which is the right choice for THEM.

Are you in that predicament?

It is not the end of the world.

We can fix this fairly fast.

Floyd Norris, writing in Business Day, writes about it–

“Falling college enrollment indicates that upward mobility may become more difficult for working-class and disadvantaged high school graduates,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

Read the whole article here:

Fewer U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School

If you are a person who hasn’t a clue what you should do, I’ll make it easy for you. Join me at Dropout to Dean’s List and I’ll help you figure it out.

You will have to do some introspective work, answer some hard questions and be rigorous in your answers, but you will LOVE the process–it’s learning about the most important person in your world –YOU!

You will learn about yourself and you’ll be happier than a pig in you know what.

If you’re not bothered by this, great, you don’t need me.

STRUGGLING WITH THIS?

If you are struggling with whether or not to go to college, I can help.

But if you ARE really concerned about what the hell  are you doing in your life and you DON’T ACT on this, fine.

If this doesn’t interest you, carry on. Come back next year.

I’ll be here and you’ll be in the same anxious spot.

It’s your education.

It’s your call.

Your life.

But I CAN help you.

WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY, THE TEACHER APPEARS.

Are you ready?

Call me: 905-584-0617.

I will not pressure you to do anything.

We’ll just talk.

Frank

P.S. Here’s an article on whether college is worth it financially.

Is college worth it?
 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Are parents at fault for poor schools?

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Are parents at fault for poor schools in the U.S. and Canada?
Or, at least partly to blame?

President Obama spent some time in his State of the Union address recently, talking about education.
There is always a great deal of talk about education, of course, but much less action by governments.
But some action is  not dependent on schools.
Parents have role to play and some of them are simply not playing it.

MORE DEMANDING PARENTS NEEDED
We cannot improve education without “more demanding parents,” President Obama said.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently mused that he “wished our biggest challenge” was “too many parents demanding excellent schools.”
Authors Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, (they are married and she is the author of The Tiger Mother) say that some parents are more focused on building self-esteem than demanding excellence.
I agree with that part of their argument but not with most of the rest of it.
Self-esteem is a worthy thing but much of the stuff written about self-esteem is flatulent nonsense.

It is fraudulent, self-defeating and stupifyingly wrong-headed.
Are schools really doing poorly because parents don’t care enough to push their children and their schools to excel?
Or are educators shifting responsibility to parents who are ill-equipped to take on such a role?
There’s a great discussion on the Opinion pages of The New York Times, too.
Both the main article and the comment links are just below.
Read the Discussion »

If you feel  you could do  more to help your child in school, please join me  on Dropout to Dean’s List.
Dropout to Dean’s List
If your child is struggling or at risk–I can help.
If  you are student having trouble, contact me at frankdaley@rogers.com. 
We can do this together.
I’m serious.

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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