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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What range of low-resource?

On DCUM where "poor" people have HHI above 100K, it's worth asking the question.

We don't have much disposable income, but education is a priority for us and we saved enough to pay for expensive one-on-one tutors in high school, as well as SAT prep. The goal was not to close doors for college admission.
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Me again. This was for a kid with ADHD and low processing speed, who needed the extra individual attention. More generally, we've always placed great importance on studying, getting good grades, intellectual curiosity, love of reading, that sort of thing. We brought our kids to museums starting when they were kids, read them all kinds of books, discussed international politics and science at the dinner table. That kid is in college now, our youngest is starting high school - we've never had any trouble with lack of motivation or work ethic in our kids. But overcoming severe inattention and very slow processing took EXTRAORDINARY dedication on his part, as well as on our part as 24/7 executive coaches, and the school, who gave him an IEP, then a 504 in 12th grade, and did an overall good job of following through with his accommodations (except a terrible math teacher who really gave him grief, unfortunately).
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I'm sorry to report that my kiddo with a similar profile internalized the misunderstanding of him by the school as exactly "Poor motivation and lack of work ethic," and dropped out of MC after a miserable high school career that degraded year over year though he began as a straight A, high MAP score student.

I hope you appreciate how rare and unique it is for for a child with those burdens to make it. It sounds like yours was an amazing school, too[/quote]

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