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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. [b]Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings [/b]with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

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Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded? [/quote]

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.[/quote]

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable. 
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So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

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:roll: Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead. [/quote]

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college.  For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer.  Even just dropping out is recoverable.

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Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors. [/quote]

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college. [/quote]

Same. Don’t know any poor college grads. I live in diverse socio-economic area. Those who struggle are not college grads.[/quote]

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