Blog Prompt 5

Article Title: Graduated Parents produce children who go into top schools
Summary: Good genes produce good children. A parent who is smarter, produces smart children. However, there are children who do not have graduated parents, but succeeds by going into a good secondary school.

Feelings:
I feel that there are two things that affect the success rate of children. Firstly, it is the effort being put in. Second, it is the genes. Not all children with graduated can do well and they can mostly likely fail. Although their parents would be willing to pay money for assessment books and a good education, such as tuition. However, it is not this money put in that affects how well they do. It is the amount of effort put into doing these academic work. You may want to buy assessment books, but if you do it horribly, there is no point in buying them as you do not learn. So, it is the effort that you put in into studying this academic work, not the fact that if you buy assessment books, your child can do well. Money is spent, but effort is not put in, what's the point? Many students who come from a humble background, whose parents are not well to do, also can do well. For example, there is a rich kid in my class, whose parents adore him and splurge money on assessment books, hoping that he does well. However, he does not care and under this permissive parenting, he plays computer games the whole day and only studies when it is during the examination period. Although he has such well to do parents, he does not do well. As Thomas Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration". Perspiration refers to effort so it is effort that would affect. Thus, in conclusion, I feel that everyone can do well if they study. It is not only genetic, but depends on effort. Some students who come from neighbourhood schools can also fare better than top schools. If they are willing to put in effort, I don't see the reason why these students from humble backgrounds cannot fare better than students with rich or graduated parents.

Disclaimer: I am not offending these children of graduated parents, but in turn, motivating children who come from a humble background to do well. So as long as effort is put in, I believe that everyone can fare well in terms of academic.