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[quote=Anonymous]This may be off-tangent, but I am a real live adult who was a very bright, low SES kid.  We exist.  In my early years of schooling, there was minimal differentiation, but most of my teachers tried to do what they could to keep me engaged in appropriate work.  In retrospect, some of them had crazy ideas about what to do, but I understand they were trying to the best of their abilities/experience.  One teacher really loathed me and expended an inordinate amount of time trying to make me miserable - but that was just one year, not a lifetime.

High school was the real challenge.  Even though I was in the equivalent of AP classes and had been since middle school - with great grades - my guidance counselor could not get her mind around my going to college.  In her mind, I just wasn't from a family that went to college.  She would suggest vocational programs, all sorts of things, probably because my older siblings had gone to trade schools.  (My parents supported my wish to go to college though they had no idea about how to help or counsel me.)  I ignored the counselor's advice, went on to college, then to an Ivy for graduate school.  She sticks in my craw more than any other experience.  All I can think about are the kids who were not as singularly focused as me about going to college - those are children/adults I think about every day.  [/quote]

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