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Poster Name:
Well

Poster Message:
Privilege doesn't make your grades less worthy at all, and no one should imply that. But if you are at the starting gate having been surrounded by people who speak excellent English, conjugating a verb is second nature. If you attend a high school where the majority of students take calculus (for one or two years) and statistics, then the standard is that you are well-prepared for math and numbers are second nature. If you are in a French class and English is your first language, then you will have little trouble learning the language when the translation is from English to French. But what if you have to translate from Spanish first? If you grew up in a household where your mom or dad tucked you and your siblings in instead of a household where you might have done the cooking and the tucking while your mom worked two jobs, you're ahead of the game. If a parent was around to check that you knew your weekly spelling list, then you knew someone was watching out for you. Not everyone is that fortunate. Many have roadblocks to getting A's no matter how hard they work. We should never forget that. And we shouldn't be so smug.