Who Gets To Attend College By Tram Nguyen Summary

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In the article “Who Gets to Attend College” by Tram Nguyen. Expresses how only currant kids are allowed to go to college or a university because of education and how it affects the community and the next generation. There has been some success in the “A-G System” helped the student succeed in school. We should fix currant things in public schools to help the students succeed. I’ve struggled in school as well and I understand the struggles of school and education but I have overcome some but still dealing with others, it’s just one day at a time. Students succeed when they have the right materials to succeed and go to college and make a great future for themselves, otherwise they will not succeed.
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and Dyslexia so I needed a lot of help to read. Even now I still have a hard time reading, to the point where I get very nervous and start to stutter. On top of that and some of my teachers and some of my classmates would start to make fun of me so I started to not do anything so no one can make fun of me so I started to failed classes but I felt I was in that stupid because I wasn’t trying so if I don’t come my full tension no one can make fun of me. When I was in seventh and sixth grade my teacher didn’t like grandma and she said it was useless so for those years we didn’t do grammar but totally messed me up when I went to the high school first year of high school and a whole bunch of things about grammar and I didn’t know anything so I started failing the class and I’ve really missed me up over years later and the end of high school and I had to make them all up. To the point where I almost didn’t graduate and even today my school still has not given my diploma. What you been doing all this has happened to me or I have done it to myself I still went to college and I am still pursuing my dreams no matter what people say or what I said to myself I’m still doing what I can

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