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Why I Succeed Or Fail?

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I want to talk to you about how it is not will nor the ability that I have that will be the reason of why I succeed or fail it is due to the systemic challenges that are placed in schools. I know your educations and my sister’s as well since I’ve have asked you before and have told me. You loved to go to school and would have to do chores in order to go since you where the eldest. It ended when you got to the 6th grade where my grandmother decided to not let you go to school anymore since she though it was better for you to stay home and help out. My sister had it easier than you she was able to go all the way to college, but then quit since of my father’s death then her having depression afterwards. Me it was harder since of the negativity I had flowing toward me at a young age due to me having ADHD and people just seeing it at “oh that how he is.” That I choose that way and that there wasn’t anything wrong with me but it was thanks to you later on in middle school where I was finally treated. But during that time another mentality came to my mind and it was the idea of Meritocracy and Deficit Model. My teacher kept on repeating over and over that if I were to work hard I would get a good job and live a good life. Which many years in public school caused this to be reinforced. What also reinforced these are where the exception stories which also reinforced these ideas. It wasn’t until talking ethnic studies classes where these ideologies died off. In today’s school’s

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