Student Success Statement

Ben Carson

·       Born in the slums of Detroit in deep poverty

·       His mother and father divorced

·       His mother came from a family of 24 children

·       His mother couldn’t read

·       His mother raised Ben and his brother Curtis

·       Ben was the worst student in his grade school class

·       Ben became top student in his school

·       Ben became a world renowned doctor.

“I hated poverty, Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, I change that (poverty), it depends upon how hard I want to work, and I decided to change it.”

Ben Carson

Reflection: Unfortunately everyone’s choices lead them up to either being rich or being poor. For some kids it is not whether they want to be poor or not they have to because of their parents financial issues and what not. I agree with this quote because we all come from a certain satiation that caused us to either be poor or have a good life.