Blaming the Children

Blaming the Children

It is always easiest to find a problem.  If youth today are struggling to meet expectations then it can be very easy to pinpoint one aspect of their life as the cause.  Whether this is parenting, schooling, friends. neighborhoods, it isn't hard to use that as an excuse.  But in the end that is all that those things are, excuses.  Why do we need to make excuses for these children and label them, when all they need is guidance and the right opportunity.
We look at upper class communities and idolize them as the norm.  Just because they can preform better on test and look better on paper doesn't mean that they should be the norm that the rest of society needs to conform to.  These students who have be labeled as delinquent or even underprivileged should not be made to feel less than any other child in the U.S.  The failure happens progressively, and when a good teacher, mentor, or friend observes a youth on the downward slope it becomes exponentially harder for them to affect change in the person.
Students are merely passed on from one bad situation to the next and it is no surprise that they have trouble failing.  If they are not given the opportunity to succeed how can we expect them to excel.  Students should be given equal chances throughout the school systems, not just because their parents can afford a white picket fence.
Progress is being made.  Many services are giving these students extra help so that we can fix the problems we have created for them.  The hurdles they have to are still more significant than others, but with the right guidance and help then they two can achieve whatever goal they set for themselves.  Us as caregivers and educators can't ever though use the excuse the student being too difficult or too far gone to explain our own failings as professions.  For gosh sake we are the adults act like one