I try looking for a job first to take care of my daughter and pay for my finances but that wasn’t successful. I needed to have a high school degree and a few years’ experience. It was a few days before I contacted Student Services at a nearby school and enrolled immediately. My journey has just begun and I never knew the road to success could be so difficult. I had many sleepless nights and so many assignments I thought I would never finish.
Emma has a 4 year old daughter and she is a single mum. She took a year’s break from her studies following the birth of her child. The two main issues that may affect Emma’s learning are; time management impacted by being a single mother and lack of experience in a forensic setting. When Emma commenced on the ward, we had our initial meeting within her first week and we identified her learning needs and issues that may affect her learning. Strategies for supporting her learning were also identified (see learning contract).
Why College Education is Important to Me For most individuals, a college education is merely the next step in the road to a successful career. For myself, the importance of a college education is more of a personal goal. Eight years ago, one of the last conversations I had with my mother prior to her passing away was her wish for me to attain my Bachelors Degree; a goal I had made for myself back when I was just entering High School but never attained as planned. I was one of those numbers who contributed to the statistics of having to drop out of college early on due to pregnancy. As a single parent, I had to put my educational goals on the back burner to raising my family.
I dropped out of school when I had my first child and I didn’t get my high school diploma until I had my 3th child. I was very determined to at least get my high school diploma that was a successful day when I received my High School Diploma. My next challenge was to go to college staying focused. I’ve been part of activities and would stop right in the middle, only because either it wasn’t interesting or I would get frustrated. But I came to find out that it was not a great idea to start something and not finish, only because it would start to become a habit and your life would always be flip flop, plus it wasn’t a good example.
She has saved £1,000 to invest in her business venture. Zorina is an extrovert, knows lots of people in her area as her parents run various local businesses – she is studying Business Studies at A level and is very interested in marketing. She has £100 saved to invest in the venture, but she has recently bought a van. Both girls hope to start their degrees next October and need the business to be successful to help finance their university fees and living expenses. They will still live with their parents initially.
I was unable to complete it as again I was faced with another setback. I was forced to quit school in order to move from Trinidad to the U.S. It didn’t help that I also lacked the moral support of my family (my mother) at the time to push through the difficulties. In fact she encouraged and even pushed me to quit. According to The Condition of Education 2011 (2011), it was stated that, “In 2009, the median of the earnings for young adults with a bachelor's degree was $45,000, while the median was $21,000 for those without a high school diploma or its equivalent, $30,000 for those with
American schools should offer more language choices to help their students whose parents’ English is as a second language communicate with parents. Owning to their responsible for their families, parents have to work many hours a day; consequently, they do not have the chance to teach or use their first language with their children. In addition, many different languages are used in the United State daily. Having three children and coming to United State from Vietnam 20 years ago, my friend, Huynh, had to work 10-13 hours a day until her children graduated high school. She rarely had the chance to talk to her children, so her children almost did not learn Vietnamese from her.
I tried going to alternative school while working and pregnant but that did not last but a semester either. I was to worried about what my child’s father was doing that I also quit going to that school. Six months after having my first child I ended up pregnant with my second one. I knew from then that I had no chance of ever going back. So I got married at 17 and started just playing the house wife and mom, till it came to me having to find a job.
The manner in which we were told to book our first patients hardly 3 weeks into the academic year left me in such apprehension that I needed some reassurance from some of the senior students that they were once where I was and had completed the ‘çhallenge’ successfully. My supervisor, as if sensing my fears explained to my patient that the treatment would take a considerable length of time as she was the first ever patient I would be attending to as a dental student. My patient’s main complaint was that the dentures that she had been wearing since 1994 were so ’blunt’ that she could hardly chew with them anymore, the teeth were indeed worn out occlusally and incisally. All she wanted from her new dentures was something to chew with and teeth of a lighter shade, which made my job less demanding. My patient, Ms Carew was a 72 year old pensioner who lived with her daughter.
This is half of who my child will be. P2 I agree with Joan Ryan’s statement “It is the acknowledgement that parents are the ones choosing, and then guiding their children through the outside environment“. The parental figure has so much influence on the path that their child will take through life. For example I was hell bent on not going to college for a year after I graduated from high school I just wanted to get a job and have fun. My Mom made a completely different decision for me, and guided me to college.