My Parental Pressure On Academics

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As I was writing about myself and about my parental pressure on academics I realize that the pressure from everyone in this parental pressure on academics comes from early in life for instance experts said: "Parental stress on academic achievement starts very early" (Rodham 71). Parents start worrying about their kid 's future early in life which makes them enforce some academic expectations, consequently parents do not know how this pressure affects their kids neither do experts because as I was finding experts opinions I realize that experts have only focused on why parents put this pressure on their kids consequently they have also realized that this pressure is affecting the kids. However, they have not bother looking at how the kids that feel this pressure and expectations deal with them.
When this parental pressure on academics is being discussed by other experts such as Pope, Denise they often only look at the parents and why they 're putting pressure on their kids for instance "Best way for parents to prepare kids for a successful future is to stress academics...never accept a mediocre grade" (Pressure to succeed affects student health). Suggestions like the one Pope gave often gives parents an excuse to think that is right to place this pressure, consequently as parents are putting this pressure on their kids they often see some kind of progress like good grades or more focused on school as implied by Palmer, Barbara “Pressure for good grades often leads to high stress, cheating, professors said” which makes them think that this pressure and expectations are working, however, they don 't realize that we this progress something is happening to them.
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As I was researching what experts had to say about this parental pressure on academics, I came to the conclusion that people are not seeing the internal dilemmas that this pressure is causing the students who fall into this category. Students who fall into this ethnicity would later struggle in their life since all the pressure that surrounds them would cause them psychological dilemmas. As a result, experts don 't focus on the student point of view meaning they would never get to a good reason why the students lack in school. In conclusion, experts should stand in the student 's point of view and realize the problem is not really dropping out of college, getting bad grades, or cheating on assignments if not the mental problems caused by the pressure and the mindset of having one option which is achieving the expectations that their parents have for them.

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