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WANTING THE BEST IN THE WORST WAY
Let’s  look  more  closely  at  the  message  from  Sandy’s  parents:  We  don’t  care
about  who  you  are,  what  you’re  interested  in,  and  what  you  can  become.  We
don’t  care  about  learning.  We  will  love  and  respect  you  only  if  you  go  to
Harvard.
Mark’s parents felt the same way. Mark was an exceptional math student, and
as he finished junior high he was excited about going to Stuyvesant High School,
a  special  high  school  in  New  York  with  a  strong  math-and-science  curriculum.
There, he would study math with the best teachers and talk math with the most
advanced students in the city. Stuyvesant also had a program that would let him
take college math courses at Columbia as soon as he was ready.
But at the last moment, his parents would not let him go. They had heard that
it  was  hard  to  get  into  Harvard  from  Stuyvesant.  So  they  made  him  go  to  a
different high school.
It didn’t matter that he wouldn’t be able to pursue his interests or develop his
talents as well. Only one thing mattered, and it starts with an H.