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i know a big influence in my life was not only my family, church and community but television. My parents and grandparents were college-educated. Everyone THEY associated with had some type of schooling. At church, they pushed the FACT that you will go to college. They even had rites of passage and other youth programs for us to prepare us for life beyond high school and mama/daddy's house.
But it wasn't until A Different World made "going down south" to college seem like so much fun that i really internalized that college was for me! Movies like Higher Learning and something else with black people in college came out around the same time. This helped me out, although i was already on a college prep track academically. With my little crew, even if you didn't have the best grades, even if you didn't know what you wanted to major in, we just KNEW that we were going to Central, Spelman, FAMU, or wherever... and this was as far back as middle school.
Now I have a co-worker who has young children and i am ALWAYS talking about college with them. I don't know what they're getting in shool and Lord knows i don't know what they're getting at home, but they need to know that they CAN go to school and they SHOULD go to school, even if "being fun" is the hook that gets them there.
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