If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.