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My family was able to get me into magnet schools starting in Middle school. My family was able to afford tutors to get my ACT scores up.

All of this was because my family had some financial breathing room to make this happen because the gov't gave stability.

Again though, other parents could have used that breathing room to enrich themselves and not care about their kids.

It took personal, good decision making on the part of your parents to care about what schools you attended and where they could allocate their funds.

All other poor kids in your neighborhood had the same "breathing room" as your family because of programs, but I am sure not all of them took advantage of it.

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Posted by tigerinDC09

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Posted on 7/26/17 at 3:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!

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Again though, other parents could have used that breathing room to enrich themselves and not care about their kids. It took personal, good decision making on the part of your parents to care about what schools you attended and where they could allocate their funds. All other poor kids in your neighborhood had the same "breathing room" as your family because of programs, but I am sure not all of them took advantage of it.

I agree, I was extremely lucky. But something could have gone at any time in my childhood and it would have ended very differently.

For example, my dad was shot and killed in a road rage incident about 6 years ago.

If this had happened in my childhood, there's no way I could have made it out.

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