Fires Chapter 4

Chapter 4 talks a lot about student success and how teachers can help them to do so. One particular section dealt with pressures on students, especially pressure from their parents to do well.
One student talks about her sister having good grades and how she feels as if she needs to match them. I can understand where she is coming from because my brother (who is in the same grade level as me) was always getting honor role in high school because he was really good at math and science and most of the other subjects, where I was very weak in math and science. My parents always made it a point to tell me that he did so well in school. Things changed when we started college because I was taking all history courses and he was taking science courses, and all of a sudden I was the one getting the better grades and he started to get flak from my parents.