An article on MSN a few weeks ago mentioned that Texas was going to drop the algebra II requirement for high schools. They also mentioned that students who successfully completed this course had a higher percentage of success in life. I mentioned this to my mom who is a retired math teacher and her opinion was obviously that the math success was the determining factor. My opinion was that intelligence, drive, and who you know made more impact than a math class. The reason that algebra II came into the equation, in my opinion, is because in order to pass this class you had to be average intelligence or better, probably a hard worker, and math is the basis of occupations in science, engineering, statisticians, etc. Those are all high paying fields and that is one measure of success that is used often. To answer your question, I believe they go hand in hand, but we all probably know that the author of the Harry Potter books failed to meet some of the 3 criteria. I think those 3 indicators are big hurdles but not roadblocks to success. Remember the saying "that which does not kill me makes me stronger". It is all in the viewpoint of the individual. Like in JD Sellers post about his father, this kind of life would hamstring some personalities and make others step up and succeed. His personality happened to thrive in this situation. Perhaps if he had been born into a famous, rich home he would have wasted his life away, who knows.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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