<<If by "us" you mean your circle of close friends and acquaintances from high school - then I would agree but shout "selection bias!!!!". The average person from Richmond, is probably still there or in a similar neighborhood somewhere close by. From my high school - in an affluent suburb, almost nobody rose up to any high level and those that did, I knew. Almost everyone else , especially the bullies, are strangely (or perhaps "not so strangely") absent from the Internet.>>
I don't mean a close circle of friends. I mean the kids who did NOT go on to top colleges from my high school. "The leftover kids", like me. Under my high school picture it says: "no plans". I worked as a pick up boy and shafter in a paper bag factory for two years after high school. My grades in high school were terrible, including plenty of D'ss and F's. I never did any homework in high school, like most of my friends.
How can anyone evlauate a kid who never did any homework. They can't!
The kids I went to the community college with couldn't get into the top colleges because of their grades, or SAT's, or couldn't afford it, or didn't think about it.
We were the "left over" kids that many felt were not college material. My school counselor told me I was not college material. My French teacher told my girl friend I would be a garbage man.
We were the kids they would have shoved into the trades
Well, we went on to college and got ourselves educated and spent our life pissing with the big dogs. All because that community college gave us a second chance when we grew up.
I did not have to spend my life genuflecting to the aristocracy, or elite. I could match them thought for thought and so could the rest of us. college allowed us to maintain our dignity when some would take it away. Like Romney and the neo cons.
Many of us went to great things. And I am talking about hundreds of kids and all pretty average.
We are all pretty average. The human species is pretty average. But no one did anything more than what most of did. After getting some schooling-lol. |
