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What Is The Privilege Of Being Able To Graduate From High School

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What Is The Privilege Of Being Able To Graduate From High School
I had the privilege of being able to graduate from high school at the young age of sixteen.
I had the advantage to travel to South America where I was able to experience how native children lived. I taught English to first and second graders of low income families.
I saw how their families made them dropped out of school at the age of ten to go to work at the street to be able to provide for their families.
As an American I had the ability to finish high school but in some countries children don’t have this privilege.

How would you have felt if at the young age of twelve your parents told you that you are unable to attend school because instead you had to go to the streets to sell gum?

Statistic show that on average more than 226 million

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