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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bad news is that life is terribly unfair. The good news is the military is hiring & their education benefits are outstanding. So quit the I-live-in-McLean-and-only-make-$200k pouting & get your kid to start doing 200 push-ups per day. [/quote]
Seems like the same advice should also go to low income people. Please quit the I-haven’t-figured-out-how-to-get-ahead-so-give-me-everything-for-free pouting.
It is true that life is unfair… for everyone.[/quote]

I grew up in a high poverty area and I never knew a single kid who so much as applied to an Ivy school. This is a total myth invented by disgruntled high-income-but-not-rich yuppies. [/quote]

All the smart kids from my husbands blue collar town in OH made it out.  He had a single mother with 3 jobs.

Columbia, Duke, Hopkins, a few state flagships.  Back then Pell grants and tuition not as outrageous made it possible.  But it takes a good HS counselor and someone telling them they can do it.

The ones that screwed around and partied and got pregnant in high school or thought they were rich from their job at TJ Fridays are still there.[/quote]

I'm a similar kid from Midwest. I had a great, great teacher in elementary school who came to our home and told my parents that I was college material. While a few kids in our neighborhood attended the local community college for the trades/LPN degree, I was the first kid to go to college. My HS counselor, however, basically told me that I was too ambitious and should consider a secretarial program - "you're smart enough that you could even be a legal secretary." She is saying this to a kid with a 4.0 in college track classes.

Fortunately the voice in my head was that of the teacher, not the counselor, and also knew I had the support of my parents who were not resistant to higher ed as were so many other parents in our neighborhood.

That said, I feel for my classmates who are still there, especially if it is because there wasn't someone in their corner.[/quote]

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