ABSTRACT
A child does badly at school. There are a multitude of possible causes – for instance he or she comes from a broken home; he or she is from a large family living in overcrowded conditions; the parents aren’t interested; he or she is a member of an ethnic minority. Some of these reasons are questionable, others more reasonable. Most workers in this field would argue that poor performance involves a whole complex of factors which broadly fall into biological and social categories.
