Every Child Matters! Do I?
January is crunch time! Young women who definitely matter are completing college applications. We have often not had extended conversations with our school counselors, teachers, parents and senior mentors with the process, the follow-through, the aftermath. How do we cope with senior stress? How do we generate a conversation with parents, universities, underclassmen and other women? Why does the process seem to be a silenced dialogue where some of us have a key and others who are equally eloquent are not encouraged, facilitated, or, in laymen’s terms, walked through the process of getting the job done?
How do we as upperclassmen notice the nomenclature - help our sisters to choose a major circle in a particular school, clarify a profession, allow for dimension? We must express a voice at the dinner table, the school forum, the lunchroom. If we do not address diversity and equity, we will have neither?
What is your college choice or job choice? Why? How might you share with a younger and an older person your thoughts on a life profession? Please collect data on what you might learn and who contributes to such dialogue. Share your exchange with Girls Matter and connect with related issues of jobs, community, hierarchy, and growth.
Again, a quick survey done with 100 college-bound students: How do I pick a university?
- Its prestige - 40%
- Its lifestyle - 48%
- Its affordability - 12%
Question: Does finance move form/choice?
Listen: Do my former generations create mountains?
Form my opinion: Am I weighing all of my options? Discuss in a forum with others.
Act: With resources, do I set/attain my goals? How can I influence elections so that more resources, scholarships and grants, are distributed fairly? Click here to tell your representatives in government what you need.
Posted on: 12/28/2003
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