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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Who knows why some people succeed and some fail. I too grew up dirt poor. The type of poor where we drank only powdered milk and never had anything that was not a casserole for dinner. I thought rich people could get single pieces of meat like a chicken leg or something for dinner.  All of my siblings and I are college educated thanks to student loans. 100%. The only difference is probably my parents raised us with the expectation that we would to go to college. There was not an option.  Even though we did not know how college was going to be paid for or how it was going to be accomplished, it was still an expectation. My parents didn’t even know a lot about student loans. We had to figure it out on our own. [/quote]

Your parents expectations are probably what made all the difference. There's a culture of poverty and even a culture of disability in which parents don't expect their kids to succeed and play no role in their academic lives. I've actually heard parents say "you're an adult now, get your own food stamps." It's hard to get out of that trap.

But I also know a couple of people who grew up in poverty with parents who did not give a sh"t about their kids, and they have advanced degrees and are successful. I can't explain that. [/quote]

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