WHY YOUR CHILD IS NOT DOING WELL IN SCHOOL

You mean your child is not doing well in school, and its getting at you really badly? Quite unfortunate! Isn't it? From years of experience as an educator a consultant; there are lots of seemingly harmless reasons why students don't do well in school. They look so simple and incapable of wrecking havoc; but that's exactly what they do. Parents often get confused not being able to readily 'cough out' reasons why their children are not doing well in school. The following are some of the reasons why your children are not doing well in school: 1. Your child goes late to school. 2. He doesn't do assignments as a custom. 3. Your child is a television addict (your television is his best friend) 4. You are always too quick to put up a defence for your child. 5. Your child is a spineless lazy bone. 6. You give all manner of excuses for your child's laxity. 7. You don't allow your child to face the consequences of not doing the right things. 8. You accept whatever your child says about his teacher hook, line and sinker. 9. You give your child room to play away his time. 10. You are too busy to assist your child with his assignment where necessary. 11. You create negative expectations for her through your utterance (especially when you are angry) 12. You rarely know his/her friends. 13. You assist your child with his assignment even when it is abundantly clear that it is not necessary. 14. You register him in the wrong school. 15. His teacher is half baked and you don't know it. 16. You get so easily carried away with the social activities of the school. 17. You get easily carried away with the explanations of owners of schools even when results are not forth coming over an academic session. 18. You rarely go to your child's school. 19. You don't attend P.T.A. meetings of the school. 20. You owe school fees. 21. You complain about his teacher in his presence. 22. Your child is always right and faultless. 23. You leave everything to his teacher. 24. You refuse to change his school even though her performances are really bad. 25. You accept results given to him in school without probing further. 26. She knows you don't respect her teacher. 27. You complain about 'everything' 28. You are afraid of complaining so teachers and the proprietor will not nickname you 'troublesome'. 29. You child is taught by an engineer and not a teacher. 30. You register your child in a school for emotional reasons. 31. Your children attend schools that boost you social status and not their own academic status. 32. You make academic decisions for him based on social expectations. 33. You register a child in a school based on physics appeal. 34. You are too busy to check his books. 35. You registered her in a school that's only interested in your pocket. 36. You complain that the assignments given to him are too much, and that he plays too much. 37. You take him to social functions when he should be busy with his assignments. 38. You over pamper him. 39. You trust him but not his teacher. 40. You are always telling his teacher what and what to do. With these bullet points I hope you have been able to find a number of the points listed peculiar to you and your child. I can't wait to see that child perform excellently well in school!!! #copied