As a result, minority and underclass students are often left behind, receive an inferior education, and learn less in their classrooms” (Conley, 2013, p. 507). Keeping this quote in mind, monitoring, in my case, was completely dependent on the educator instructing the class, as my parents could not help me with most of my schoolwork. My mother, on many occasions, has said that she doesn't even remember learning most of the things I learned in high school. My father also dropped out of high school several decades ago and simply couldn't remember some subjects, as he eventually found a business-related job and wasn't required to memorize certain aspects of the classes I was taking. like pre-calculus and physics. In most cases, I believe that monitoring is only useful if the student's personality and other social factors are taken into consideration