We had a career day last week. Students could come to school "dressed for success" which means dressed in the clothes of whatever future career they wanted. There were lots of interesting careers. Most students just wore their dad's oil field hat (because actually getting to wear hats is the best thing that can happen to a junior high student).
One of my very best honors students came dressed in her mom's shirt from Denny's. I asked her if she wanted to be a waitress when she grows up and she said "Maybe". This girl is smart. She understands the math more quickly than most of my students. She needs to go to college and be an engineer. More than likely she'll get a job working at Denny's as soon as she's old enough and then never even consider going to college because no one she knows went to college and college is expensive so why would she?
How do you tell a student whose parents never went to college that they are too good to not go to college?
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