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I would STRONGLY ask you to consider why exactly you think these boys won't be prepared for college.  Do they attend high school?  Do they perform reasonably well?  If so, they will be ready for college.  Not Yale, but college.  [/quote]

I've seen their scores and report cards and obviously they've been over and converse with my children. They show promise and are on the cusp of being prepared for college. On current track they'll get in, but anyone can get into college. They'd be high-risk future dropouts. Further, they have no way to pay for it - I don't even know how they'd pay for a junior college.

For anyone familiar with Richard Hoggart, he and Richard Rodriguez wrote about being a "scholarship boy." Basically the need for a first-gen working class student to distance themselves from anti-education family and embrace the university. College away from home is the ticket out of the trap multiple generations of their family are caught up in.[/quote]

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