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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The world has changed.

Tom Friedman's great book The World is Flat makes the point that the world got smaller and that now as opposed to say the 1950s through the 1980s you compete with jobs not with the best people in your city or region or the country but the entire world.

The way the world has been shaped changed economies and it changes the winners, losers, and how you navigate the world.

The way we are set up now, a person, even UMC, has to make the right decision almost all the time from the time they are 10 until they are substantially older.  Our system used to make allowances for people who bloomed later in life.  That window has narrowed substantially.

So what does that [b]mean -- as a kid you need to take the right classes, get the right grades, do the right activities, go to the right college, take the right major, do that with no debt, get a good first job and have it go quite well.
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If you fail at any point on the road you are part of a different economy and a different world.  And to be clear, the failure may not even be on your part -- you may not know you are making the wrong choice --- if you are not MC or UMC you may not know, also bad luck can kill here as well and you certainly have no control over that.  You may not have the resources to do it.

Rather than keep arguing we should address some of these issues.  It will take money; which could mean more taxes.  But for example, we need to improve education in this country but especially in areas where we have poverty and stubborn poverty.  People say that but we really need to take action on a Federal level.  I would argue this is a national security issue.

We need to help people have the right information to try to make the right choices.  We need to do something about student debt both going forward and in the past.  This has hampered too many people.

We need to have programs to help people who learn later in life that they need education or a trade -- help the people that have fallen behind.

We owe this to society.  [/quote]

I think you overstate the impact of right relative to good enough.  Obviously, getting into a coveted G&T program might get you further, but getting all As in whatever zoned school you are attending is infinitely better than getting all Ds in the same school.  Ditto for activities.  ECs are great, but no ECs plus good grades or a part time job plus good grades will get you to an in-state school.  Maybe not a flagship, but you’ll get your degree.   Etc, etc.  [/quote]

PP here.  I agree with what you said.  Good enough works.  [/quote]

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