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 If being from a low socioeconomic family was universally a barrier to high educational attainment, why do we import some of our highest level professionals from developing countries?

How did all those high quality Indian and Nigerian doctors and engineers that work all over the US get where they are? By having a strong family expectation for education achievement, that’s how. I know a Sri Lankan doctor who told me that when growing up school was shut for most of the spring and summer since children where expected to be labourers on farms but his mother MADE him and his brother study 8 hours a day to make up for that time. He supported that method because he hated being poor and wanted to go to university to get a good job.

So all this “ it’s too expensive to educate the poors” is bull. Reach out and engage the parents,  show them that if their kids do A then B will be the outcome and they will get a better quality of life as adults. Cultivate a culture of high expectations.[/quote]

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