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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:44PM (#19935029)
Hardship is relative. There's always someone who's had it harder than you. His parents sacrificed things to get him the resources he needed to succeed, is his point. They sacrificed things that the parents of other kids did not.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by kaitai on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:28PM (#19935686)
People are starting at different points. His parents were physically able to do what they did. If his dad had been disabled, or dead, he wouldn't have been able to commute for 4 hours. Would that make his dad less virtuous?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:29AM (#19937806)
I don't recall saying anything about virtue.
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