[Jessica S.]

I HIGHLY recommend reading Patrick J. Finn’s ‘Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest.’ It discusses the parental attitudes you talk about, where the attitudes stem from, the effects they have on children as students, why they may respond to you or your educational methods as they do, and how or why you may want to reconsider your own attitudes/ methodology. The work is fairly comprehensive, drawing from Finn’s own experiences as well as from other studies on the topic. Sorry if this isn’t a very ‘deep’ response, hopefully Finn will make up for it. This book helped me get some good perspective where others failed.

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Name : Jessica S., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 25, City : Bridgewater, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Educator, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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