I can understand your comment about having a hard time affording school supplies -- and in college, I imagine, paying the exhorbitant prices for books. (I must have paid well over a thousand dollars for mine this semester. It's insane!)
However, I don't understand why you have to work harder academically to succeed than someone in a higher economic bracket? I don't quite understand why your monetary situation should have a big impact on your scholastic achievement. Is it because outside stressors regarding your finances keep you from being focused on your academic goals? Because you don't have the money to afford tutors? Because you have to work in addition to attending school?
I really am asking this in an attempt to understand, wide-eyed innocent that I am, because I may have to remove a comment further up on the page, if I'm wrong in my understanding of the circumstances of underprivileged persons in the American education system.
I know the entry was deleted, and I didn't get a chance to see what the other person responded to you, but if you're still interested in a response to this question, I'd be more than happy to answer it.
K.
Please please, be my friend! *cries*
Hee hee.
We need to dinner sometime soon. I'm thinking SATCO again, :)
However, I don't understand why you have to work harder academically to succeed than someone in a higher economic bracket? I don't quite understand why your monetary situation should have a big impact on your scholastic achievement. Is it because outside stressors regarding your finances keep you from being focused on your academic goals? Because you don't have the money to afford tutors? Because you have to work in addition to attending school?
I really am asking this in an attempt to understand, wide-eyed innocent that I am, because I may have to remove a comment further up on the page, if I'm wrong in my understanding of the circumstances of underprivileged persons in the American education system.
I know the entry was deleted, and I didn't get a chance to see what the other person responded to you, but if you're still interested in a response to this question, I'd be more than happy to answer it.
I'm not needy at all. Nope.