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I have commented on this many times.  I grew up in a struggling neighborhood in a poor household.  My parents, while hard working and well-meaning, had never been to college and expended so much energy "surviving."  I was a good student and a responsible teen (I cared for my siblings whle my parents worked).  However, until I was 15YO I had no idea that college was even an option for me.  I knew nothing about college readiness or financial aid and neither did my parents.  The ONLY reason that I even began to understand it as an option is because I had a couple of teachers who saw my potential and helped me.  Without them, I would have followed a different path.  That is the thing wrong with "all you need is personal responsibility" rhetoric. It implies that people know or should know all of the options they have.  In some of these homes, that is not the case.  That is one reason why I volunteer in a mentoring program for HS kids.  I help them learn what is out there and how to get after it.

Besides that, there is a factual disconnect with all this rhetoric.  People ARE trying to help themselves get out of some of these communities.  AA and Latino college attendance are at historical highs. May of those kids are from low SES backgrounds.  The flip side to that is that student loan debt levels are alarmingly high is this demographic. [/quote]

You are a hero. I wish someone like you had been around for my kids. [/quote]

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