Education is supposed to be the “great equalizer”. Meaning: if you’re poor, get an education so you can land a good job after. But now, if you’re marginalized before schooling, you tend to be even more marginalized inside school. So if you’re poor, you probably won’t afford it. If you’re a woman, you get discriminated. If you’re a minority, you enter a culturally-biased system. Thus, you tend to stop studying early and it becomes a cruel cycle. ALS students know this all too well. Just putting in my two pennies worth.
Click here to read the news on a 16-year old girl who committed suicide because she could not afford her tuition
