It is well known that some people achieve more from education and do better at schools than others. So how can we explain these differences?
If we look at the statistics of the performance in the exams, We can notice that in every ethnicity there is a girls’ domination in achieving better results. This statistics gives a clear example of gender inequality in school achievement. But why girls do better than boys? Even if their levels of attainment are improving, they raising more slowly than girls’. And this doesn’t mean that girls are cleverer than boys, the reason in their Character traits. Girls are tending to be more ambitious and confident. Also nowadays more and more girls are interested in making career and being financially independent, that’s why educational achievements for them is a key point in finding a good job. While boys have more opportunities to find a job in future because still employers in many kinds of work prefer men and here appears obvious gender discrimination. 

Another important reason is social status. Pupils from middle and upper class families gain better results than children from working class families. This occurs because of material and cultural deprivation. Material deprivation means that children from working class that they had a lack of money and the things that money could buy, they even sometimes don’t have enough food, that’s why educational process becomes for them not so important. Also these children are cultural deprived which occurs when children because of lack of upbringing and attention from parents don’t have enough skills and attitudes that are needed for educational success. But of course we don’t talk about all the children from working class but in general these problems appear. Also another important problem which affects differences in achievement at school is that working class families are tend to think about future in ‘short run’ that is they think about their present rather than making sacrifices for the future.
As we can see home and family play a very important role on an achievement of pupils. But even from middle and upper class families some children achieve less than working class and this is because of inadequate socialization as more and more parents think more about their career and forget about their children by thinking that giving them enough pocket money will solve all the problems with the child. Those pupils are tend to be more spoilt and think that they don’t need to have good results as their parents will always help them and find a good job without their educational achievements.