Re:Student Debt Lawsuits Are a Lucrative Business
by nunez on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:19PM
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> The smart person who is born poor or a minority will do just fine as their grades will carry them.
Spoken exactly like someone who was not poor and not a minority.
Being poor creates a network effect of issues that can keep VERY smart kids down for a long time. Being poor and having all of your relatives be poor too means you have no mentor network and very few ways out. Being poor with poor parents that are working three jobs just to afford food and shelter or aren’t working because they’ve given up (or were given up on) means that your most direct line of support is pretty much absent and that you are on your own. Very few kids make it out of this situation.
It is a very hard problem to fix.
If you WERE poor and a minority and are saying this, then you should DEFINITELY know that you were an aberration.
Spoken exactly like someone who was not poor and not a minority.
Being poor creates a network effect of issues that can keep VERY smart kids down for a long time. Being poor and having all of your relatives be poor too means you have no mentor network and very few ways out. Being poor with poor parents that are working three jobs just to afford food and shelter or aren’t working because they’ve given up (or were given up on) means that your most direct line of support is pretty much absent and that you are on your own. Very few kids make it out of this situation.
It is a very hard problem to fix.
If you WERE poor and a minority and are saying this, then you should DEFINITELY know that you were an aberration.