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From my own experience, expectations have a whole lot to do with where your life goes. In my house, there was never any question that my siblings and I would go
by jbuzbee 12y ago
From my own experience, expectations have a whole lot to do with where your life goes. In my house, there was never any question that my siblings and I would go to college as certainly as we went from 1st to 2nd grade. There was never any discussion otherwise. And now that I have kids, the same is true. College is the next step after High School as certainly as High School is the next step after Middle School.
Looking back to my High School days, I see friends that didn't grow up with these family expectations and see that their life-path has been more difficult than mine. I recall difficult times in my own college days when I pondered dropping out to take a blue-collar job, but I knew what my family expectations were. I continued on when others with different expectations would have quit and ended up with the menial job I considered taking myself. I'm not sure how the schools can raise expectations of these kids when they have some many negative role-models around. It's a tough problem.
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoI'll completely disagree college should be necessary. It is this kind of thinking that leads people who have plenty of job skills but no college education to feel like a failure in life. From what I've seen personally, there are a real lot of factors that keep the poor poor. Probably too many to count. College education in and of itself isn't remotely enough. There's also "life skills" (for lack of a better word) that are not emphasized. I grew up poor and I now work in an office with people who grew up middle class. I sometimes find it difficult to relate to them.