The opening sounds to me a bit like "if you have to take a job in order to afford to be here, then you don't deserve to be here". I doubt that's intentional but

The opening sounds to me a bit like "if you have to take a job in order to afford to be here, then you don't deserve to be here". I doubt that's intentional but it's not very well written - it sounds like accusing poor students that their main problem is not needing to be able to afford food and rent but "not prioritising their education enough". > If you must work (in order to make ends meet), you should realize the limitations that this imposes on your study time. What exactly is such a student supposed to do with this observation, other than conclude "education is not for people like me"?