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Teens in Asia dominate global test; US stagnant

This is an incredible story! Have you asked her parent's why they treat her like this and will they accept counseling? Can she be removed from the environment?

There's a girl my family knows about who has virtually no relationship with her dad and lives with her mom. The dad's mother gives her spending money. The mother tells her she may not eat any food in the fridge she doesn't buy herself. She's banned from using the family's Internet WIFI connection even to study and do homework. She lives there but her mother does not allow her in the house between 8am and 6pm weekdays when she's at work under threat of being kicked out of the home. She's 18 and just started her freshman year at a local state college. Being 18 keeps the mother out of legal trouble. With a complete lack of family support, I'm surprised she's in college.
 
You are right, and thus an employees wages are based on the allocation of limited resources, which at that point morals of an employer determine a lot.

My wife is in accounting school currently. After that, I plan on going back to school, but obviously my situation has constraints. I have taken a business class as well as a business ethics class and an accounting class. I have 54 credits through Penn State, but after switching my major a bunch and going through a pot smoking phase, I dropped out (my GPA remains around a 3.3). But, just like anything else, I have to make a long series of good choices if I ever wish to get back into school and further, I have to make far better choices than I previously did if I ever get back into school.
You already have your foot in the door. Become an engineer, go to engineer school.
 
Without family values and support to succeed - even the brightest will struggle.

One student I am working with has parents who laugh at her ambitions whenever she's done well if I talk to her about going off to University. 95% of my pastoral support tutorials with her are about rebuilding her confidence. She'll pass this year but whether she stays on and passes the final year to go to University will be down to her parent's attitudes and support.

Agreed but that isn't very many. Generally the correlation exists between those that care will succeed and those that don't... won't.

I go to houses to get kids in for exams and as you are probably aware... most of those that are pastoral night mares have a nightmarish home life.
 
I can't be blunt with them I'm afraid - the only thing I can do is work with her to keep her confidence and ambitions up. her parents are farmers and we are up in the North where a lot of women still end up living gender assigned / defined lives.

It is frustrating at times but I have to work with them and her, if she goes on to be more than just someone's wife on a farm here then I will have achieved something.

I worked within the School system in Central America and found the same thing. Some very bright girls were destined to spend the rest of their lives doing menial farm work rather than being allowed to reach their human potential. It is an international problem with many being trapped in ancient customs, girls and boys.
 
Driving the train. Don't you work for the railroad? Engineers make really good money.

Oh, yeah that's the end goal if I stay with the railroad. It's the next logical step. They really don't make that great of money, though. It's only because of the 60 hours plus a week that their pay ends up looking decent.
 
You are right, and thus an employees wages are based on the allocation of limited resources, which at that point morals of an employer determine a lot.

My wife is in accounting school currently. After that, I plan on going back to school, but obviously my situation has constraints. I have taken a business class as well as a business ethics class and an accounting class. I have 54 credits through Penn State, but after switching my major a bunch and going through a pot smoking phase, I dropped out (my GPA remains around a 3.3). But, just like anything else, I have to make a long series of good choices if I ever wish to get back into school and further, I have to make far better choices than I previously did if I ever get back into school.

Oh, yeah that's the end goal if I stay with the railroad. It's the next logical step. They really don't make that great of money, though. It's only because of the 60 hours plus a week that their pay ends up looking decent.

It might be what part of the country you're in. Two of my buddies are railroad engineers and I know one of them makes north of $85,000 a year. He mainly does yard service too. He's got 15 years in though.
 
Without family values and support to succeed - even the brightest will struggle.

One student I am working with has parents who laugh at her ambitions whenever she's done well if I talk to her about going off to University. 95% of my pastoral support tutorials with her are about rebuilding her confidence. She'll pass this year but whether she stays on and passes the final year to go to University will be down to her parent's attitudes and support.

That's a bad environment. I hope she does well and gets a scholarship to go to university and goes away from home. Her successes should be reinforced and her aspirations should be encouraged. They should not be torn down or ridiculed. Getting her outside of her current environment, IMO a fairly toxic one when it comes to promoting academic persistence and success, and allowing her to live in a more supportive environment would maximize her chances of success.
 
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