Parents/guardians are likely to influence long-term plans for their children. One of his students, Callie Roberts, was encouraged by her mother to drop out of high school and take a parenting class because she was pregnant. The two brothers in his class had a grandmother who took them out of school because she didn't believe it was important to get an education. The students were considered to be at stage 5 of Erikson's psychosocial development “Identity vs. role confusion” because they were not used to being in a structured classroom and following the rules, they had to “adapt” to a new environment in their