This story about a forum of homeless community college students in Silicon Valley is insane.http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-homeless-students-ask-community-officials-to-stop-stigmatizing-them …
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Also, the particular community college in the story is exactly a 15 minute drive away from this site where Cupertino will try to block 1,200 below-market-rate homes at below 80% area median income tomorrow night.https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1139605202997133312?s=21 …
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I didn’t see the numbers for SFState included, but I’ve seen the cars and mobile homes and I know professors who wind up helping students navigate academia while homeless.
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I often think about the resilience of these enrolled students (who are also often working two or three jobs on top of trying to get a degree) and think well shit, what could they accomplish with that much grit if they had more support? Maybe *they* should be at Harvard.
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I wonder what the state wide numbers are combining all three branches cc/state/university ... that is a lot of distressed students. I wonder how their GPA is effected
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