7. We had one student on the edge of homelessness, was $400 short on bills and almost had to quit because of that. I personally loaned him the money, and his income moved from $10/hr to $70k+/yr. It only took $400, but he didn’t have anywhere to get that from. Insane.
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18. Economically we vastly undervalue education. A $10k swing in income when you’re 20 yrs old is actually worth $400k+ over your lifetime, but we’re (rightfully) skeptical of the returns
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19. We really have no way to measure how much universities help because there’s so much selection bias involved. E.g. what if you took all the people that got accepted to Stanford or Harvard and had them all go to the same community college? Or different schools? We don’t know.
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20. People who have never made upper middle class jobs are unused to working for people that want them to succeed
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21. Lack of access to a computer almost kept some of our best students from being able to attend. Those aren’t expensive.
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22. Bank accounts are surprisingly hard to get if you don’t have much money
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23. One of the biggest limiting factor in many Americans getting an education is geography. They don’t live near a college/university and making that move would be tremendously expensive relative to their incomes
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That’s all for now. Thanks for playing!
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Is this statement valid across all socioeconomic groups?
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This tweet so much. I often think how lost I was after high school because my parent had no idea how to guide me
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Wow! I have a new found love for you sir, truer words have never been spoken!

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Well It depends if they got an education & even if they did the educational system is fucked up anyway. We let people that never went to school & have bad methods of education be in charge. So I'm just wondering when will people understand that.

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what is the best place to go for an educational advice?
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Great thread! Are there pro education advisors that parents can hire?
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