Most of my current friends didn’t go to school, they started businesses, got 9-5’s, certificates etc. We are all kind of in the same spot right now, still just trying to figure it out at our varying ages. No one Read More …
Education 200
Education is an interesting thing, many aspects of education affect us as individuals, and many affect us all as a whole. My education was not the most formal way of education. I was homeschooled although homeschooled is a generous term. Read More …
Education 182
My whole life my parents have emphasized the importance of education. They told me that if I didn’t want to live in a broken down trailer with cheap things my whole life, that I need to go to college and Read More …
Education 808
My previous experience with education was I believe great in the later grades of elementary, however in the higher levels of education in my district the education seemed to be slightly declining. In elementary school I was academically ahead of Read More …
Parenting Style 845
My parents definitely used concerted cultivation as a parenting approach with my brother and me. We were both put into sports as toddlers, and had to choose our favorite to pursue for the rest of childhood. There was maybe one Read More …
Family 290
I have no idea where I fit! My dad owns a really successful business, and so did my mom, but we weren’t overly rich and we didn’t have a mansion, but we had a nice house with a big backyard Read More …
Social Mobility…The American Dream 182
The “American Dream” to me is the idea that anyone can build a stable life for themselves with hard work and dedication, no matter what your background is. I think the American Dream has always been a fallacy to a certain Read More …
Social Mobility 176
I have not faced mobility within my family and if I have my parents made it unnoticeable. I grew up and still am in an upper middle-class family, if anything it went from middle class to upper middle class but Read More …
Place 227
TC, Texas, is a very academically competitive town. All kids are “pitted” against each other in order to individually soar in their academic career. My graduating class was 519—and all of us were playing as competitors since kindergarten. I don’t Read More …
Place 176
I am from Gregory Michigan, the town about 20 miles east form me is Leslie Michigan. The household income rate for both towns is similar but a difference. Gregory has an average income of $36,000 whereas Leslie is at $31,000 Read More …