In life, people often tend to see things differently, however in the case of social classes and students success, it can be viewed as cycle. This cycle cycle involves the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor, there are many factors that lead to the cycle and inequity that exists between the education of the two social classes. It was a new day of school, I was thrilled with the fact that I would be graduating this year yet scared of the journey ahead. Beginning my first day of Twelfth grade the teachers said, “This is the year, where we will talk about college and prepare you.” Seeing some classmates thrilled to move on to the real world got me hyped as well, but my fears became more and more present. One of those fears was that one
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Students with parents who went to college do better than those whose parents did not attend college: according to journalist, Paul Tough, “only 39 percent of first generation students (meaning students whose parents weren 't college graduates) graduated in four years, compared with 60 percent whose both parents graduated from college.” Income can define if a student 's parents went to college and it has a high impact on the student 's education and how long they take to graduate. In some cases students are not able to get the proper help they need at home, or they lack the support from parents. When we look at the income of students parents with high and low income and compare the success the results are different. Students parents with a high income attending a school in their community get a better education than a students with parents earning a low-income and attend a school in their community: “The second trend whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor- how much his or her parents make. To put it in blunt terms: rich kids graduate poor kids don 't”(Paul Tough) . Income defines the level of support they received due to the fact that it is likely for students living in a low income area to have less resources in school than a student living in a high income area. The cycle of poverty has a solution and it is important …show more content…
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Students with parents who went to college do better than those whose parents did not attend college: according to journalist, Paul Tough, “only 39 percent of first generation students (meaning students whose parents weren 't college graduates) graduated in four years, compared with 60 percent whose both parents graduated from college.” Income can define if a student 's parents went to college and it has a high impact on the student 's education and how long they take to graduate. In some cases students are not able to get the proper help they need at home, or they lack the support from parents. When we look at the income of students parents with high and low income and compare the success the results are different. Students parents with a high income attending a school in their community get a better education than a students with parents earning a low-income and attend a school in their community: “The second trend whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor- how much his or her parents make. To put it in blunt terms: rich kids graduate poor kids don 't”(Paul Tough) . Income defines the level of support they received due to the fact that it is likely for students living in a low income area to have less resources in school than a student living in a high income area. The cycle of poverty has a solution and it is important …show more content…
"Athletes Are More Likely to Finish High School Than Non-Athletes." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 30 Jan. 2014. Web. 10 Aug. 2016.
Brown, Emma. "In 23 States, Richer School Districts Get More Local Funding than Poorer Districts." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2015. Web. 10 Aug. 2016.
Diamond, Laura. "Illegal Immigrant Has the Grades but Not the Papers."AJC.com: Atlanta Georgia News, AJC Sports, Atlanta Weather. Ajc, 7 Sept. 2010. Web. 10 Aug. 2016.
Kredell, Matthew. "Putnam Describes 'opportunity Gap ' between Rich, Poor at Price Center Talk." // USC Price. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Aug. 2016.
Tillotson, Mary C. "Want to End Poverty? Educate the Kids." N.p., 9 Dec. 2013. Web.
Tough, Paul. "Who Gets to Graduate?" The New York Times. The New York Times, 17 May 2014. Web. 10 Aug.