What Is Your Environment Telling You
Many factors can account for this belief. First, there is the aspect of the adolescent’s social environment. For the young person who grows up in a economically deprived neighborhood surrounded by drugs, crime and ramped unemployment it is difficult to see a benefit to your educational achievement when you are presented with evidence on a daily basis that tells your efforts are in vain.
Secondly, the youth in these environments are absent of proper models from whom they can follow after. Without tangible evidence to the contrary of what they encounter daily, it is difficult to make a radical shift from what you see and what you pursue.