Mentor Relationship

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However, mentor relationship can, also, be harmful and dysfunctional for the disadvantaged students. For example, a student can decide that the mentor owes them something. They can think that if the mentor is getting privileges by spending time with them, the mentee can ask the mentor to do some work for them. For example, a student can manipulate a mentor to provide them excuses for absences or could be asked to do homework instead of them or provide them with illegal substances, such as cigarettes or alcohol. The mentee can lie in order to make the mentor do those things and feel offended if declined. Also the mentors themselves can have a negative influence on a mentee. Children from poor families are often unsupervised by their parents …show more content…
Most funds have cut financial support for schools during the Great Recession and, even worse, some are continuing to cut them now. In 2014 at least thirty-one percent of states provided less funds than before the Recession and fifteen of them have cut the funds for more than ten percent. Schools, which are faced with such changes are no longer able to hire experienced professors, reduce classes or expand the high-quality education. Some of the states even reduced their education level due to not having enough funds. Such difficulties harm all students and especially the disadvantaged population. Michael Leachman and colleagues state in their paper: “Most States Have Cut School Funding, and Some Continue Cutting” that:” These cuts weaken schools’ capacity to develop the intelligence and creativity of the next generation of workers and entrepreneurs” (Leachman, Michael, Albares, Nick, Masterson, Kathleen, Wallace, Marlana, p.1). The government should propose a policy, which will create more opportunities for financial funding of public education or the education of US students will highly decrease (Leachman, Michael, Albares, Nick, Masterson, Kathleen, Wallace, Marlana, p.