We all seem to think of the same things when we picture "high school". Cheerleaders, proms, report cards, football games. We all remember the A honor roll students, and how much time they spent studying. The thing that I have always questioned is, do children that come from lower status families do worse in school than ones from higher status families?
I noticed as early as middle school that the ones who weren't as secure financially tended to study less than the ones whose families were well off. This bothered me to a point, for my family wasn't dirt poor, but we weren't rich, either. We had a normal house, two cars, both my parents had jobs and we were never hungry. My grades weren't perfect, but I managed to always get about the 3.0 grade point average, which was better than my friends, who came from poorer families. They barely passed.
My theory isn't that people from lower class families can't achieve in school, or that people who come from rich families can't flunk out.......

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Title: How Family Status Affects Education
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