Professor Pay Attention: I Need Direction

Across the United States, we frequently find high school students who are from single parent households, who are abused, or perplexed by the worries of life. While trying to map their own futures, these students take on adult responsibilities, before their time, to provide for themselves and their families.  We find students who are worrisome to teachers because of their intelligence levels and ridiculed by peers because of their poverty levels, and they sometimes lose hope in their future because they feel no one cares either way.