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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by harryh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:35PM (#19935343)
"I'm all about parents sacrificing for their kids" <--- Did you skip the part where I wrote this?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:39PM (#19935363)
Did you skip what I wrote? You say you're all about parents sacrificing for their kids. But why would they bother if their kids won't get any benefit from it?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by harryh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:55PM (#19935472)
It's a matter of degree. Some sacrifice = great. Extreme sacrifice = bad.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:10PM (#19935579)
Is not eating out or taking vacations too much sacrifice?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by pertymcpert on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:39AM (#19936341)
Yes. Really.

Your family is not model to be aspirational of. Yours is a warning to others.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:09PM (#19941527)
To be clear, my family did not make those tradeoffs. I'm not the original commenter. But why do you think such a thing is a warning?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by pertymcpert on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:18PM (#19944494)
Ok my mistake.

> But why do you think such a thing is a warning?

Because it's a bad way to spend your life.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by harryh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:24PM (#19935665)
It is when combined with "commuted 4 hours daily."
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by learc83 on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:08AM (#19936185)
I agree. I wouldn't have traded 20 hours a week of time spent with my dad for a better neighborhood.
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