What impact does academic achievement have on self-esteem?
How does this impact explain high school drop-out rates?
2 answers
Successful people in any endeavor usually have health self-esteem. If we're not successful, we don't feel very good about ourselves. In school, when a person isn't very successful, s/he often has low self-esteem, and therefore, leaves this setting as soon as possible. We hope they find something they can do successfully, but that is not usually the case.
I agree with Ms. Sue.
Another problem I saw in the district where I used to teach is that administrators decided that teachers needed to teach "self-esteem lessons," especially in the middle schools. What I noticed when these kids entered the high school is that they had very high (but often false) self-esteem, but not very highly developed academic knowledge and skills. These kids, too, were among our dropouts but they had a really hard time -- they couldn't figure out why they weren't passing their classes.
What an injustice to those kids! If the admins had stayed out of it and just let the teachers teach the academics, the kids in this situation would have been far better off.
JMHO!
Another problem I saw in the district where I used to teach is that administrators decided that teachers needed to teach "self-esteem lessons," especially in the middle schools. What I noticed when these kids entered the high school is that they had very high (but often false) self-esteem, but not very highly developed academic knowledge and skills. These kids, too, were among our dropouts but they had a really hard time -- they couldn't figure out why they weren't passing their classes.
What an injustice to those kids! If the admins had stayed out of it and just let the teachers teach the academics, the kids in this situation would have been far better off.
JMHO!