Campuswide Interventions That Improve Student Acheivement

"One of the reasons that middle-class students do better in school is that their parents intervene to lessen the impact of the roller coaster."

I had seen evidence of this in my own high school, but had never made the connection. The truth in this has been shown over and over again. If I or others of equal or even higher SES than I had any issues in school, if our grades were slipping, if we had issues with other classmates, if we had problems with a teacher, if we had questions about the validity of a grade, or even if we just had questions on an assignment would be right there by our sides or representing us and getting us the solutions, answers or processes started. I did have friends in lower SES groups, and it is true that when they had issues they had no back-up, no support, no prize-fighters willing to go into the ring instead of them. When those friends had an issue with a teacher, even if the teacher was the one in the wrong, my friends lost without the support of their guardians. I think this is a sad and unappreciated truth.