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Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion, Student Voices

Low income students face challenge of overcoming assumption that “college isn’t for us”

I opened the door to see my best friend from childhood, Randall, chewing on a pen top, facing me in his baggy jeans. We hadn’t seen each other for nearly a decade. As kids our lives seemed like mirror images and we were inseparable skateboarding, biking, and playing basketball on our block of South Central […]