Are Parents or Schools to Blame for Low High School Graduation Rates?

There have been protracted arguments over whom to blame between school teachers and parents for low high school graduation rates. I am neither a parent nor a teacher; therefore my view on this subject will be without bias. In as much as I blame the parents to a greater extent, some school teachers should also take smaller portion of the blame. My reason for this is simply because some teachers are not doing enough in training their students to the extent that they will fall in love with their studies, and in so doing, students fail to have high regard for education especially in High school. On the other hand, parents are expected to spend quality time with their children, so that the training they offer will go a long way in making their kids to pay good attention to what their teachers teach in school.

I was trained by both parents and teachers, and I can tell where the greater impact comes from. The problem with our world today is that parents have left their primary responsibility of taking good care of their children, and providing them with proper home training, but consider their work more important than training their kids. This is not helping high school students to fully understand what it means to acquire formal education, and the direct result is low graduation rates among high school students. This parents’ neglect of their kids’ education could be noticed in the way some high school students behave during classes while in school. Some high school students do not have much regard for their teachers, and it is mainly because their parents are not doing enough at home to make them understand the importance of teachers to their education. This actually makes students to get tired of education so soon in life.

Some school teachers who should share a portion of this blame are those that lack the technique of making students to fall in love with their studies. From experience, I have discovered that students show more interest when they are being taught by some teachers, but little interest is being shown by the same group of students when some other teachers teach them. Most of the time, it is not the difference in courses the teachers handle that seem to be the problem, but in the ways and methods these teachers handle their different courses. Some teachers are more experienced, and know how to handle students than the others, and this also contribute to a drop in students’ interests in their studies.

The fact that some teachers lack the technique and method in making their students to fall in love with their studies cannot take away the neglect shown by most parents towards their children’s education. If we actually want to improve high school graduation rates, parents’ primary responsibility of giving their children proper home training must greatly improve.
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