The Achievement Gap

1)What do YOU think causes the gap? I think that the gap is caused by many different things. The lack of interest in school is one of the reasons because now a days students think that dropping out of school and doing drugs and joining gangs is the cool thing to do. When a kid has no support from his/her parent then of course the kid is not going to care about how they do and then it comes to a point where they end up dropping out and screwing up their life.

2)What can students do to close the gap?I think that students can help close the gap by caring about their future and thinking of how they can better themselves in life. If more students start looking at how bums live and how they have no roof under their heads then maybe students will start to recognize that they should do good in school in order to have a brighter future.

3)What can parents do to close the gap?Parents can first give a little support to their child because many kids don't know how it feels to have your parent care about you. They can also become more involved with the school and go to meetings on how to make their child's future better for them. But by doing this then the kid also has to know that they have to step it up a notch and do better.

4)What can teachers/schools do to close the gap? Teachers can help by not putting so much pressure on the student because many times a teacher has to keep pushing a student and then the student thinks to him/her self that they can't do it. The school can do it by letting students do what they want because a student feels better doing what they have to do by doing it in a comfortable way.