I never really went to any after school center with a lot of other kids to do my homework. I didn’t even go to a daycare or anything. My mother was a teacher at the elementary and middle schools that I went to so my little brother and I would always just go to her classroom after school and do our homework. When we got done with our homework we could go play with the other teachers’ kids on campus but we had to be totally finished with homework. So in that way my elementary and middle school days were similar to the Easley kids who can’t play until they are done with their homework. I also never really asked for help. I think I was too independent for help and my mother always made me do stuff on my own until I just absolutely couldn’t figure it out or anything on my own. Then she would help me. I came from a part of town where, in my school, I was almost a minority. There were equal number of Hispanics, African Americans and Caucasians in my school. In my neighborhood though, it was all Caucasian. I was fortunate enough to be in advanced programs or gifted programs all the way through grade school. I was pushed to do better than my best and never even had the option to not do my homework or say I don’t want to or can’t. I think at home, for some of these kids, they are allowed to get away with not doing their homework just by telling their parents they did it or they don’t have any. The parents are then at fault for not checking to see if their grade school child is lying or not. Once you start to get a child under control in the sense that they know they just can’t lie to you to get out of something, they’ll learn to just do it. But it starts with the parents.
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