Un-Wealthy And Educated Analysis
Un-wealthy and Undereducated
It is a time where the accomplishment of a high school diploma is not enough to have a well-paid career. The struggle is hard enough to finish high school for students whose family is in need of some financial stability. The decision of getting a job or to continue on education after high school is a tough choice. Even though a student may want to help out the family with an extra income, he or she will realize it is not so easy anymore. Every day it gets harder to get a job not because of the economy, but it is the requirements the employer wants the employee to have, one of which is a college degree. The pressure of family responsibilities make the student stressed, and so they are stuck between keeping the …show more content…
Gordon gathered feedback from some students and one student, Javier Evangelista, said “…colleges probably stay away from public schools because they don’t think ‘there could be a student in this school who has the potential to win the next Nobel Prize, come up with a new technology or change the world” (Gordon, par. 14). He is expressing that it is an injustice that recruiters believe there is nothing good that can come from a rural area. It is wrong to believe only the wealthy are geniuses. The students from a low-income family are those students who work harder for success. Rash writes, "I 'm no more than ten feet away it 's like there 's a big glass door between me and the kitchen table, and it 's locked on Lynn 's side" (par.15). Bobby was so close to his wife physically, but to him it felt like she was out of his reach. Lynn is so buried into the school work that she is not taking into consideration that she is becoming too busy for anything, or anyone else. She is from a rural area and is trying her hardest to do well in school. She was young when getting married and had plans to further her education she did that, but the idea of her husband having a job seemed right at that
It is a time where the accomplishment of a high school diploma is not enough to have a well-paid career. The struggle is hard enough to finish high school for students whose family is in need of some financial stability. The decision of getting a job or to continue on education after high school is a tough choice. Even though a student may want to help out the family with an extra income, he or she will realize it is not so easy anymore. Every day it gets harder to get a job not because of the economy, but it is the requirements the employer wants the employee to have, one of which is a college degree. The pressure of family responsibilities make the student stressed, and so they are stuck between keeping the …show more content…
Gordon gathered feedback from some students and one student, Javier Evangelista, said “…colleges probably stay away from public schools because they don’t think ‘there could be a student in this school who has the potential to win the next Nobel Prize, come up with a new technology or change the world” (Gordon, par. 14). He is expressing that it is an injustice that recruiters believe there is nothing good that can come from a rural area. It is wrong to believe only the wealthy are geniuses. The students from a low-income family are those students who work harder for success. Rash writes, "I 'm no more than ten feet away it 's like there 's a big glass door between me and the kitchen table, and it 's locked on Lynn 's side" (par.15). Bobby was so close to his wife physically, but to him it felt like she was out of his reach. Lynn is so buried into the school work that she is not taking into consideration that she is becoming too busy for anything, or anyone else. She is from a rural area and is trying her hardest to do well in school. She was young when getting married and had plans to further her education she did that, but the idea of her husband having a job seemed right at that