Americans should be able to upgrade their skills affordably, Obama argued. Forty percent of American college students attended community college, he pointed out, suggesting that that was the place to start with free tuition.
I find it interesting that then-president Barack Obama thought that all Americans should be able to upgrade their skills affordably. the paragraph also mentioned that 40% of all college students attended a community collage.
Even if states couldn’t pay for four years of college for every student, just covering two years would be a significant benefit—and one report from 2014 showed that free two-year programs in all 50 states could be funded using federal financial-aid resources that were already readily available.
this is important so students from all socioeconomic status can afford college and also be given the same educational opportunities.
The district was able to build new schools for the first time since the 1970s. The offer brought change not just to Kalamazoo schools, but to the whole city.
I find this both important and interesting because this did not just bring change the schools in the county but also in the city. What I find most important about this paragraph is that this hasn't happend since the 1970's and this was in 2005
. The vice principal had just announced over the P.A. system that anonymous benefactors would be paying the students’ college tuition—all of the students across the entire school district,
This is very important since it describes the reason why the students are teary eyed and happy. If this happened to me I would also be very happy and also be moved to tears.
I’ve spent half my life in Miami and the other half in Massachusetts. One 20-minute phone call with an Amherst football coach when I was a high school senior, and a college brochure that arrived two days later, brought this dual citizenship into existence. I can still hear my brother asking, “What is an Amherst?” We didn’t have internet at home, so we had to wait to get to the school computer lab before we could look up the unfamiliar name. We learned that the “H” was as silent as my brother was when he found out a United States president — Calvin Coolidge — was an alumnus, and so was the eminent black physician Dr. Charles Drew. Now maybe his baby brother could be one, too.
I can imagine how they feel don't have internet at home and how frustrating it would be especially if you would like to for example make a phone call or do online class work.
Many students from low-income families described having to learn and decode a whole new set of cues and terms like professors’ “office hours” (many didn’t know what they were or how to use them), and foreign rituals like being invited to get coffee with an instructor (and not knowing whether they were expected to pay) — all those moments between convocation and commencement where college life is actually lived.
basically social status and different classes in mannerisms, gets in the way of low income student's ability to succeed because attending college does not only mean attending classes but also requires peer interactions and if the peers are from different social statuses they might face communication/social barriers.
We like to think that landing a coveted college spot is a golden ticket for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. We think less critically about what happens next.
I agree that there are more socioeconomic challenges that appear while at college because there are a lot of students including international students who have different world views and backgrounds.
I worked extra shifts as a gym monitor to help cover the unavoidable costs of staying on campus during breaks.
staying on campus was very costly and I strongly agree with that.
At that moment, however, I thought less of home and more about the gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach. I walked past Valentine Hall, the cafeteria, its large windows ghostly in the moonlight. Only the emergency exit signs blazed red in the darkness. There was just enough light to see the chairs stacked on top of the tables and the trays out of reach through the gates that barred me from entry. Amherst provided no meals during holidays and breaks, but not all of us could afford to leave campus. After my first year, I knew when these disruptions were coming and planned for hungry days, charting them on my calendar.
what he is saying in this paragraph is the feeling of loneliness was worse than not being able to visit his family. furthermore, being alone and hungry felt like seeing ghosts. I felt really sorry for him because its the equivalent of being isolated. I can imagine a lot of people including myself are feeling this way during this pandemic.
so many of my peers.
what hes saying is he did not have enough money to see his family members during spring break so he felt left out since his classmates were able to go home. I can relate to this when i have that feeling of loneliness and jealously when other people are able to participate in something i cant