Chapter 2: Today's Students

In the text The Joy of Teaching by authors Gene E. Hall, Linda F. Quinn, and Donna M. Gollnick, a section of chapter 2 discusses how the socioeconomic status (SES) affects students. Generally there are three types of classes in America, Low – Income, Middle Class, and Upper Middle Class. Education for the low – income children is sometimes hard, but is never denied because of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act that “requires school districts to provide transportation for homeless students to stay in their schools of origin if their parents request it”. However they are less likely to graduate and attend college. Students of middle class family’s usually have high expectations from their parents, they are expected to attend college or receive training after they graduate from high school. The only difference between the middle class and the upper middle class is that the upper middle class has enough money to possibly provide their children with tutors if they are not receiving the grades expected of them, or possibly send them to a private school to get what they see as better schooling.