Characteristica of at Risk Students

Each and every one the categories are all very important and play a major role in every study.   The one the category of at-risk students that I choose was the family stability.   This to me is one that stands out not only because I am a woman and a mother but because it is a fact that society itself cannot change and in my opinion just keeps on growing.   I thin it keeps on growing for the mere fact that woman are being stronger and standing up for themselves when they face unhealthy circumstances for their children and themselves.   There are many single woman that are trying to raise there children on there own, and more than half of them are working minimum wage jobs and sometimes even working two jobs just to support the house hold, just as our reading indicated.   Trust me there is no wrong in that because we as parents just want the best and try to give the best to our children.   Working so much just to make ends meet is causing to have less time to dedicate to their child’s school, school work, attendance and their education as a whole.   Sadly because of this, family stability, and SES are now an issue for at-risk students and drop out rates at a high.   Statistics state that 50% of low-income/ family stability exceed the drop out rates; compared to general population.  

YISD (Ysleta Independent School District) has a cohesive and comprehensives system or program for assessing and reporting student’s performance.   In 2009 a low-income program was introduced to help students achieve higher than average on there test scores, attendance, and extra curricular activities.   It starts of by conducting an intensive five-day orientation program and this fallow by each individual being assigned a student as a mentor, this being part of the program.   The mentor shows the child the support and attention they deserve and are lacking for X reason at home or at school.   I think this program is beneficial to the child because it helps them build there self esteem, drop...