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Explore the influence of family and communities on youth education, highlighting the importance of parent/community involvement, teachers in the community, and economic differences.
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Families and Communities • The effect of family and communities towards the youth in education
“Parent/Community involvement” • “Pontiac …it was a big community, lot of our parents were involved, all the basketball, football games, they packed. I was a cheerleader … I was also in marching band … it was fun… A lot of great relationships were established there”
Teachers in the community and outside • “..the teachers then most of them lived in the neighborhood in the school that you went to. Or particular, lived in the city. However, a lot of teachers now live outside of the community and in most cases, do not even live inside of Detroit … as a child of DPS, the teacher, whenever he or she would call home and would tell, would ask to speak to my parent and he or she said well, we're having trouble with our son, with our child. It wasn't, most of the time, well, we're having trouble with your boy. It was our boy. It was a connectedness. It was our responsibility..”
Differences in Economic Groups • “You probably had a mix between poor and middle class families…like I said, it's a mixture between middle class and maybe... I don't even want to say poor but, you know, whatever. Just a little bit below middle class.”
“ Mostly everyone's parents either worked in the auto plants or somewhere in that kind of industry. And it was mostly single parent and some two parent homes.” Working parents
