Stressed brains dont learn the same way and unstressed ones. The stronger the degree of stress-causing conflict, the greater the effect on performance. Teachers typically report that children from disrupted homes rate lower in both aptitude and intelligence. Such children are three times as likely to be expelled from school or to become pregnant as teenagers, and five times as likely to live in poverty. As social activist Barbara Whitehead put it, writing for the Atlantic Monthly: Teachers find many children emotionally distracted, so upset and preoccupied by the explosive drama of their own family lives that they are unable to concentrate on such mundane matters as multiplication tables.
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