Dealing with a Child’s failing school Report Cards

When a child continues to fail in his studies, a parent is tempted to say the school is not competent enough or the child is simply inefficient in certain areas, but in any situation, it is more important for the parent(s) to know and understand how to deal with a child’s continual failure in his studies and in the school. A child failure can be in different ways;

   (1) Failure in general academic studies

   (2) Failure in basic arithmetic and other calculations

   (3) Failure in relating with peers and senior members of the society

   (4) Failure in simple etiquette and morals

   (5) Failure in self-confidence

These levels of inefficiency can sometimes be interrelated, thus one can be a factor of the other; turning the child into a quagmire of confusion if not adequately dealt with by an understanding parent(s) or adult. A child can be failing in his or her academics because of certain challenges from home that rendered him or her short of relating with the peers and other senior members of the society, which might in turn affects his or her morality standard and subsequently the self-confidence is shattered. This is no doubt a chain of uncontrolled misfortune for the child who is blamed for this most of the time. People easily forget, or may not even care about tracing the source of the problem, because the child is not providing enough information for them to deal with it. Some children have developed thick skins toward their home issues, in this case, such a child might not be giving out enough for the society to really understand him or her, and thus deals with her situation as expected. In the honesty of it all, the child failing situation in the school is not a high-ended situation to be dissected and dealt with, it is a part of them, which must be understood by any adult around them, that their lives are about trials and errors, whereby the errors part of them should not result in total condemnation. And in some cases, people do not have the luxury of time to start making enquires into what makes a child flips, especially in a school where there are lots of them to deal with, and of course, the adult personal issues standing as a block as well.

The Report Card is supposed to give a detailed explanation or account of a child school activities over a period of time, and parent(s) or the adult around is suppose to understand that the teacher giving the report has only reported his or her personal observation of the child as seen in the school ONLY.

The parent(s) should have a better understanding of what the teacher might be saying or, in some cases, insinuating, after all, he or she stays with the child more than the classroom teacher stays, and should better understand the facts surrounding a failing Report Card.

To be continues…

  Thanks you.

Samuel Solomon O.

NB: Contributions and Comments are highly welcome.

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