I do agree with this post. The key to being succesful is getting good grades. There aren't too many succesful people that didn't get good grades. Mostly everyone who got good grades tried hard. Another way to be succesful is to try where others fail. The resources for inner city kids are not always there, a way to help inner city kids is to give them the resources they need in order to be succesful, such as a library or teen youth center. I think that for someone to do all the things the author of this article said he would do is highly unlikely. He mentions using skype and other online services, the odds of being a poor kid with a computer camera to video chat or skype with other people is unlikely. I do agree with the author on somethings but I feel like he just shouldn't talk about this unless he has been in the situation of being a poor black kid. Because obviously if everyone knew all they needed to do was get good grades to be succesful they would all do it, but there usually is something else that plays into the mix that prevents them from being succesful.
After reading the responses, I completly agree with some of the stuff they said. What is the difference between being a poor white kid than being a poor black kid, the resources aren't there for either. Its not as easy as just going to the library studying, and getting good grades. I also agree that the author shouldn't have even written that article, it is just going to start a lot of contraversy that doesn't need to be started, it just sound ignorant of him to be talking about that kind of stuff because he has no idea what it would be like to be a poor black kid.
No comments:
Post a Comment