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Born poor, stay poor: what my $120,000 student debt says about class in the US

I was the first in my family to go to college and I teach at an Ivy League school. I’m still broke – and I probably always will beI owe $120,000 to the American government, which I accrued chasing the American dream. Yes, I am yet another person who was taken in by the predatory lending practices of student loans.The story of my education is classically American: problematic student is deemed talented, teacher with heart goes out of his way to invest in the student, turns out the student’s family is struggling financially. Teacher pays for testing fees, student excels on state test revealing they weren’t stupid after all – they were just broke, they were just ...

The Guardian     Oct 08, 2023