Growing Up With Mentoring

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Kids that grow up with mentors have the possibility to do good in school and the outside world compare to the kids that don’t have mentors. A study from “National & Community service and Mentoring” show that there’s approximately 3 million adults that volunteer for one- on- one but that number increased more since 2002. Mentorship is someone that gives you guidance, is a role model, gives you positivity, and helps you with education wise. Mentoring is someone that is getting you in the right path, also shows you how reality would be. Mentoring exist because some people might be first graduates and don’t know what to do for the next path not only that but it helps people get out of hard situations. A lot of people benefit from mentorship even …show more content…

In this Documentary there was a kid name Chavis didn’t had a father figure but had a mother figure. But also Money didn’t had both parent figures but he had Coach Cortney as a mentor but not only was he a mentor for “money” there was also an other player name O.C he also didn’t had parent figures but had a grandma and another family that helped him with his education wise. This kids might not have parent figure but a good mentor but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t had a tough life they still suffer when they had a mentor because had to pass all the test that life had for them. Chavis had anger issues his mom believe that he had them because he didn’t had a father figure and he was angry for that but there's many people that grow up without a father figure and some of them don’t have this effect. For example, O.C and Money didn’t had both parent figures Money was good in school and O.C wasn’t good in school he had so many problems with his academic grades. What this kids had in common were that they had a mentor which was Coach Courtney. The coach motivated them to believe in themselves to never give up if they lose they can win the next game. Also the coach help the players to do in school help them to get their grades up. For example, O.C was struggling to get his grades up because he will fail his class and he had to get a good score in the ACT so one of the coaches of the football team took him to his house and gave him a tutor for every material he live with them it did help him a lot with his grades and

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