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Origins
Last night, Robin and I were looking through old elementary and middle school yearbooks. Robin knows what everyone's doing these days. I don't know how. We looked at the Mitchell Elementary School graduating class of 1991 (43 students) and counted at most 9 people among them who had or were working towards a college degree.
Doesn't that seem extraordinarily low? It makes me feel lucky to be where I am. When I was in elementary school, it never occurred to me that these people wouldn't go to college. My parents both have Master's degrees and I just assumed that I would go to college myself. There was never a question about it. And since I was going, I assumed everyone else was going. College was just another automatic step on the educational ladder.
Robin had a story about almost everyone in the class - how they'd gotten into drugs or having babies or worked at Krogers. It's quite disappointing, actually. These people were my friends when I was ten. How did we end up in such different places?
What are your educational origins? Are you where you wanted to be? Are your friends and classmates where you expected them to be?
srah - Friday, 16 August 2002 - 10:24 AM
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