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[quote=Anonymous]I attended failing schools (my ES received an "F" from the state when grades were given to schools, HS had 50% drop out rate). My sibling is a doctor, and I'm a lawyer. But it was a long road to get there and we had some financial privilege and luck helping us along the way. The problems were more social than academic (although academics were not good); I fell into a group that, for the most part, prioritized drug use over schoolwork. I didn't get into a single college I applied to (although I only applied to 3, and I had no idea what I was doing when I picked them--there were 3 "counselors" for 2000 students at my school and they did virtually no college counseling and my parents were MIA). I worked in a restaurant for a year, moved to a big city and went to an urban private college with relatively open admissions, and eventually got it very much together. YMMV, but I wouldn't send my kids to a school system at the 15th percentile. No way. [/quote]
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