Sentences with phrase «while middle class parents»

All I know is that the primary schools where I live are now more like sweat shops and crammers while middle class parents are saddened to see less smiles on the faces of their children and see a weary resigntaion about school

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It also cuts taxes for parents and middle - class singles while moving the tax code in a more pro-growth direction.

Middle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting sMiddle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting smiddle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting styles.

These include Whisconier Middle and Brookfield High School Support Services Staff, as well as the Prince of Peace Preschool Staff in Brookfield, while offering parenting classes in Brookfield and surrounding towns.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

In 1 study34 of 320 middle - class parents who used spanking for discipline, 85 % reported feeling «moderate to high anger, remorse, or agitation» while spanking their children.

Poor children are stuck in shoddy day care, while «typical middle class parents raise their children differently,» providing them their own «head start.»

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

Parents became more alarmed after learning that mold - infested ceiling tiles were being removed Friday at another school, Williamstown Middle School, while students were still in class.

While teachers are in class, parents will demonstrate Tuesday at the Capitol, said Debra Green, whose children attend Jefferson Middle School and Memorial High School.

Those charters with high test scores most often exclude low - scoring and problem students, while subjecting their students to punishing discipline systems that middle class parents would never allow for their own children.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

This new benefit will be geared to income, meaning that Canada's wealthiest families would no longer receive a benefit, while Canada's middle - class parents could see as much as $ 2,500 more, tax - free, every year (based on a typical family of four).

While an authoritative parenting style (balanced levels of control and permissiveness) is normative and associated with positive child outcomes in white middle - class families, this positive association does not prevail in all cultural and socio - economic backgrounds.