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Originally Posted by MitsyMayhem

No. Not almost anyone can. When you live in the ghetto, you're also automatically at an education disadvantage. Your parents usually don't put a focus on education. And so, usually you don't put as much as a focus on education. I'm in advanced classes. There's three black students in the whole system, me, my friend Jessica, and her friend Chris. However, I stop and look where we grew up. We're middle class and our parents put a focus on education. My mom made sure I could read at age to, and their attitude on school has affected my views on school as well. Now I'm not saying validating not working, but a lot of these kids can't realize education's value because of the lack of education on their parents part. Did you know 1 out of ever 100 blacks in the ghetto go to college? And many of our generation and of our parents are the first. My dad was the first in his family to go to college, and my friend Jess's father was as well. It took a lot of work. My dad was mowing lawns for money to get into a good college. Fortunately, a kind white man saw how hard he worked and just gave him half of the money. You can work hard, but it's a lot of work and most people don't make it. Not everyone can. But as Jillian and my father said, that's capitalism and it's even worse where you're at a social disadvantage.

I would have thought anyone could, since two of my friends and I were always ahead of the whole neighborhood in our FCAT scores. I've always made a four, whereas people I knew who didn't take the initiative to learn barely had anything above unscorable. I kept telling everyone that I just read and learned on my own and that they could also achieve if they really wanted to, but most were too stubborn to go into the "white" side of town. Also, I know how tight money can be, but they have scholorships specifically for blacks, if only they would apply and honestly try for once.