Missouri Education Watchdog: Abandoned by Her Parents and once Labeled a High School Dropout, Girl Receives Scholarship from Harvard

Missouri Education Watchdog: Abandoned by Her Parents and once Labeled a High School Dropout, Girl Receives Scholarship from Harvard:

Abandoned by Her Parents and once Labeled a High School Dropout, Girl Receives Scholarship from Harvard

by stlgretchen

'If there is anybody at all who has a dream,' Ms Loggins told WBTV, 'then they can definitely make it happen. There are no excuses. It depends on you and no one else.'

'And I just made a decision that I was not going to end up like my parents. I wasn't going to end up having to decide should I buy food this month or should I pay my rent.'

Two questions:

• Is this successful young woman the "anti-Julia"?
• Can the human spirit be measured by governmental data sets?