Comments on: Economic Mobility: So Much For Horatio Alger http://belletra.com/policy/economic-mobility-so-much-for-horatio-alger/ English Translation from German, Spanish and Catalan; English Editing and Writing Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:08:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Casey http://belletra.com/policy/economic-mobility-so-much-for-horatio-alger/#comment-6 Casey Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:13:35 +0000 http://belletra.com/policy/economic-mobility-so-much-for-horatio-alger/#comment-6 Thanks Beverly. That's really shocking to hear that you exceeded your mother's income at the age of 19. If you were on such a swift track at that age, I'm sure that going to law school will be the right choice for you. And I agree with you (again) on your second point. I went to a special magnet program within a public high school and the gulf between the education that I and my classmates were lucky enough to receive and what the kids in the larger school were getting was enormous. When I Google my classmates from the magnet, they show up. Students from the regular school, not so much. I think that the Internet can create the illusion of a middle-class and upper-income world sometimes, hence my pleasure that the NYT is covering the income gap. Thanks Beverly. That’s really shocking to hear that you exceeded your mother’s income at the age of 19. If you were on such a swift track at that age, I’m sure that going to law school will be the right choice for you.

And I agree with you (again) on your second point. I went to a special magnet program within a public high school and the gulf between the education that I and my classmates were lucky enough to receive and what the kids in the larger school were getting was enormous.

When I Google my classmates from the magnet, they show up. Students from the regular school, not so much. I think that the Internet can create the illusion of a middle-class and upper-income world sometimes, hence my pleasure that the NYT is covering the income gap.

]]> By: Beverly http://belletra.com/policy/economic-mobility-so-much-for-horatio-alger/#comment-5 Beverly Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:23:36 +0000 http://belletra.com/policy/economic-mobility-so-much-for-horatio-alger/#comment-5 I exceeded my mother's income at the age of 19, and my father's shortly thereafter. Then I threw it all away to go to law school and sink into massive amounts of debt. Ask me in ten years if it was worth it... That said, I agree with you. When I taught law at a high school in the "ghetto," I was aghast at the disparity between that school and the one I attended, which was just an average public school in an average suburb. I exceeded my mother’s income at the age of 19, and my father’s shortly thereafter. Then I threw it all away to go to law school and sink into massive amounts of debt. Ask me in ten years if it was worth it…

That said, I agree with you. When I taught law at a high school in the “ghetto,” I was aghast at the disparity between that school and the one I attended, which was just an average public school in an average suburb.

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