Impact of Parents/Guardians Levels of Earning on the Quality of their Children's Education

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Impact of Parents/Guardians Levels of Earning on the Quality of their Children’s Education
Introduction
Children depend on their parents and guardians for their daily survival and living. The parents and guardians take care of all the financial support of their children and their young dependents. These financial provisions include proper housing, education, proper dressing, entertainment, and many others. Parents and guardians provide to their children according to their levels of income. Parents/guardians, whose sole source of income is salaries or wages, provide to their dependents according to the level of their salaries/wages. The quality of everything the parents and guardians provide depends on their levels of earnings.
Quality of education is defined as the level of excellence in education (Yarris 180). Education excellence or quality has a vast definition. Some organization like United Nations defines the quality of education depending on students' performance on international assessments (Morgan). The governments have based their determination of the quality of education in their countries on the international rankings. The parents and the locals also have their definition of quality education; the parents and the locals believe that quality of education is enshrined in the institutions of high standards.
The standards of these institutions are based on their national ranking. The ranking mostly is based on students’ academic performance, health and safety, survey responses, resources and facilities, cultural diversity, teachers, sports and finesses and extra-curricular activities (Nolan). Parents and the public believe that highly ranked schools have intelligent students who can respond well to surveys and perform best in both classwork and field activities. The public believes that the highly ranked schools have the best facilities of learning, e.g., modernized laboratories – both science and computer laboratories. The public also believes that the proper living standards in these schools are high and this can explain why the students or pupils in these schools are healthy.
Teachers in highly ranked schools are better off that than teachers in lowly ranked schools. The teachers have common knowledge about the students and the curriculum, but teachers in highly ranked schools are believed to be better than those in poorly ranked schools (Obidike). The teachers in highly ranked schools are motivated to do their work through the students’ performance and also the schools’ administrations in conjunction with the parents. Also, these teachers are exposed to further training in seminars, and also their exposure is enhanced by the number of visits they pay to better schools than theirs. The teachers’ exposure and motivation improve their quality which by extension improves the quality of education in highly ranked schools.
Education is an expensive venture for both the parents and the guardians. The parents/guardians have to part with large sums of money to take their children to school. The cost varies with the lowly ranked schools perceived as cheap and highly ranked schools perceived as expensive. The desire of...