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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The hope
that parents hold for their children’s success in life is often first
vetted through their children’s success in school. Indeed, doing well
academically is related to doing well in life economically (Butler,
Beach, & Winfree, 2008). Yet for many children, chances of academic
success are diminished because of poverty (Ducan & Brooks-Gunn,
2000); family economic status is a strong predictor of children’s
academic outcomes (Sirin, 2005). Children’s academic success is
considered to be a key mechanism for disrupting the inter-generational
transmission of poverty (Orfield, Losen, Wald, & Swanson, 2004).
However, researchers and practitioner need to know more about the
processes that link family economic status with children’s academic
outcome to effectively intervene in the inter-generational transmission
of poverty.
Education is the best legacy a nation can give to
her citizens especially the youths. This is because the development of
any nation or community depends largely on the quality of education of
such a nation. It is generally believed that the basis for any true
development must commence with the development of human resources. Much
then is said that formal education remains the vehicle for
socio-economic development and social mobilization in any society.
Nigeria like any other development nations has witnessed prolong
military rule and aborted civilian administration, which necessitate the
promulgation of decrees, edicts and laws concerning educational
practices at federal, state and local government levels. The
inconsistent continuation of government, due to coup d’etat
de-emphasized the continuity in the implementation of educational laws
and policies since 1970’s till the present time. This gradually laid the
foundation of fallen standard in education at the primary school level
of education (Shittu, 2004). Danesy (2004) opined that poverty of
parents has elastic effects on their children academic works as they
lack enough resources and funds to sponsor their education and good
school, good housing facilities and medical care and social welfare
services. Mba (2001) lamented that poverty of the parent has made
education and learning impossible for children in the rural areas. He
lamented that poverty has further caused other problems, such as
disease, frustration, poor performance, and psychological problems and
so on. Good parenting support by strong economic home background could
enhance strong academic performance of the pupil. Frequent changes of
ministers and commissioners for education by successive government
coupled with the politicization of education by political parties that
emerged in the country’s political scene since 1979 have also brought
about disparity in educational practices, which caused differential
academic performance and class room functioning of both teachers and
Students, from state to state (Danesty, 2004). These measures have not
improved the socio-economic and educational status of families in the
country. They have rather increased their sufferings and widened the
socio-economic gap between families. Johnson (1996) lamented that in
contrast, some parents become poor due to these hard measures, such that
they can no longer provide adequately for good education of their
children. Also, they can no longer provide shelter, clothing and special
need of their children in school (such as provision of text books,
school uniforms and good medical care and so on). High level of
illiteracy, poverty and low socio-economic status coupled with high rate
of paternal and maternal deprivation of pupil’s academic choice, which
was necessitate by poor-economic situation of the country has thrown
many farmer and old rural dwellers into untold financial problems such
as poverty, lack of money to purchase necessary textbooks and working
materials for their wards who are supposed science students. Also, many
rural and suburban dwellers can no longer pay the school fees of their
wards. These ugly situation have prompt Students to drop out of school
to engage in subsistence farming and become housemaids or engage in
other menial jobs to support their academic pursuit or fall back to an
easier-to-fund class of education. Hence, many Students have since taken
school as a secondary assignment and school attendance on rotational
basis.
The resultant problem posed by this, is poor academic
performance in school examination. Parents with low socio-economic
status often lacks the financial, social and educational support that
characterizes families with high socio-economic status. Lower income
families have inadequate or limited access to community resources that
promote and support children’s development and school readiness. At
secondary school level, children hailing from low socio-economic status
are trained to respect authority and obey orders that employers like in
manual laborers. Conformity and obedience are encouraged rather than
individual critical thinking and evaluative abilities amongst the
Students at this. It is good to note that the quality of parents and
home background of a pupil goes a long way to predict the quality and
regularity of the satisfaction and provision of a child’s functional
survival and academic needs. Poor parental care with gross deprivation
of social and economic needs of a child, usually yield poor academic
performance of the child. On the other hand, suffers parental and
material deprivation and care due to divorce or death, or absconding of
one of the parent, the child’s schooling may be affected as the mother
alone may not be financially buoyant to pay school fee especially for a
scientifically career oriented student, purchase books and uniforms,
such child may play truant, thus his performance in school may be
adversely affected (Shittu, 2004).
Danesy and Okediran (2002)
lamented that street hawking among school Students have psychologically
imposed other problems, like sex networking behaviour, juvenile
delinquent behaviour, which takes much of the Students’ school time that
necessitate the poor academic performance and drop out syndrome noticed
among school Students. Nevertheless, they also lamented that the
maternal and paternal deprivation of the essential needs of the Students
have prompted their poor performance. Education not only
provides knowledge, but also inculcates values, training of instincts
and fostering the right attitude and habits. So the quality of education
obtained by students is of great concern to most parents. The various
economic, sociological, political, financial, familial and cultural
positions of parents in general have impact on both the quality and
standard of education to wards in a quest for attaining enviable
attributes. Education is considered as a human right that should be
accorded to all human beings, in fact, it was the reason why a lot of
international human right bodies consider education as a fundamental
human right. The first and perhaps the greatest challenge facing Nigeria
and making it difficult for good quality education that is capable of
bringing about sustainable development is corruption and inadequate
attention. Education in Jos North a city in the Middle Belt of Nigeria
with a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census,
Popularly called "J-town" or "Jesus Our Saviour" by the residents, the
administrative capital of Plateau State and a Local Government Area in
Plateau State, Nigeria, is not exonerated from the same general menace.
These issues underscore the need for this study.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Nigeria
today is regarded as a third world country as a result of developmental
redundancy. The common assertion of sociologist that the responsibility
of training a child always lies in the land of the parents and the
education can be an instrument of cultural change which is being taught
from home is relevant in this discourse. It is not out of place to
imagine that parental socio-economic background can have possible
effects on the academic line of Students in school. Whatsoever affect
the development environment of children would possibly affect their
education or disposition to it. In line with the above assertion, Hill,
Henry, and Wilson (2004) also argued that socio-economic status of
parent do not only affect the academic line, but also makes it
impossible for children from law background not to compete well with
their counterparts from high socio-economic background under the same
academic environment. From the issues above, the problem of this study
to investigate the effects of socioeconomic status on the enrollment of
Students into science classes in Jos North.
1.3 PURPOSE OF STUDY
This
study highlights the need for the inspectors of education as quality
assurance agents to place a serious check on the quality of education
and system of enrollment of students in Jos North. The following are the
reasons for carrying out this research study: To determine the effects
of parents’ socio economic status on the academic line of Students. To
determine whether parental socioeconomic status have the same influence
on the academic line of all Jos North Students. To determine whether
parental socioeconomic status have the same influence on the academic
line of Students in developed and developing areas of Jos North.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The following research questions will help give direction to the research study:
1. What is the influence of parental level of income on Students’ choice of academic line.
2. Does parental economic status have high influence on the choice of academic line of all Jos North Students?
3.
Does parental economic status have the same influence on the
academic line of Students in developed and developing areas of Jos
North?
1.5 HYPOTHESES
The following formulated hypothesis will help check for the trueness of the research study:
H01
There is no significant effect of parents’ socio-economic status on
enrollment of Students into science classes in Jos North
H02 There
is no significant difference in enrollment rate into science classes
between Students in developed and Students in developing areas in Jos
North.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This work
will be of a high importance to parents, government and policy makers.
The findings of the study may expose some factors that might be
responsible for poor performance of Students in school. The identified
areas where government at different levels could come in will be brought
into focus in other bridge the gap of special enrollment preferences of
children of low and high income earners in the society. The importance
of achieving the object of education programme among the general
populace cannot be over emphasized. A researcher, Laosa, has posted as
follows: “The educational achievement gap has deep root: it is evident
very early in child’s lives; even before they enter primary school.
Socio-economic differences such as health and nutrition status, home
environment that provide access to academically related experience,
mobility rates, and financial assets can certainly influence academic
achievements” (Laosa, 2005).
1.7 SCOPE OF STUDY
The study is limited to all senior secondary Students in Jos North, Plateau State.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Socio-Economic status: The interaction of social and financial ability/capacity of an individual or parent.
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