Self-fulfilling Prophecy -If you have positive role models of parents, siblings, cousins who have gone to university and have a respectable well-paid career, you are more likely to believe that you will get good grades
-If, however, your family expect you to get married and have children or Benefit Street unemployment is their expectation, then you are less likely to believe you will get good grades (deserve good grades) and therefore don’t try to aim high….