“”He’s one of the Ewells, ma’am,” and I wondered if this explanation would be as unsuccessful as my attempt. But Miss Caroline seemed willing to listen. “Whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave. The truant lady gets ‘em here ‘cause she threatens ‘em with the sheriff but she’s give up tryin’ to hold ‘em. She reckons she’s carried out the law just gettin’ their names on the roll and runnin’ ‘em here the first day. You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year…” During this time period having a good education was not common. After the great depression families were left with not much money and needed the children to be working to get more money so that they could support themselves. This was wrong because the kids should have an opportunity to have an education. Yes, the families needed the child to work for them but by doing that they were only holding the child back. The adult’s job as a parent is to love their child and do what is best for them no matter what it is. When the parents hold their children back from getting an education they are holding them back from so much more. Without a primary education children can’t go on to college, which results in not being able to get a well paying job, which results in having to stay where they are and live a hard life. Parents should have done what was best for their child’s future but they did what they thought was best for their own present. They should have pushed their children to go to school and learn so that they could succeed in life. I think that this relates to modern families that don’t have much money. Children can now go to public school through 12th grade for free which is amazing but what about after high school? College tuition alone is way to expensive and when you add things such as textbook prices, dorm room costs, and groceries, the price ends up being out of reach for many families. So just like the Ewells children not going to elementary school, some families cannot afford to send their kids to college.