As an educator in the public schools for the past 15 years, I am curious to know exactly what type of assignment you are working on, and for what class, as the type of children you are writing about are the most challenging ones teachers deal with! Anyway, I think you have corrected your sentence fairly well, but here's what I would do to make it even better:
"However, a child who is discouraged and unwilling to learn, has difficulty taking responsibility for his or her actions, and tends to act out inappropriately has probably not received a clear-cut set of values instilled by his or her parents."
As a teacher, I must also comment here on the snowballing effect that lack of success has on many "reluctant learners." Often a child who acts out and misbehaves does so because it is much cooler to be labeled a behavior problem than to be seen as a dummy; frustration and boredom may also lead to acting out, simply because the child doesn't feel capable of even attempting the work he or she's being asked to do.
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