Diana Lorena Figueroa

Zack Kelly
Class 3A
November 19, 2015
CAT-W #1 (Diagnostic)
This article states that low-income teenagers will be better students by attending highperform schools. The article says that 36% of kids who went to those had lower risky health
behaviors compared with 42%of students who attended lower-performing schools. Something
interesting in this article is to realize that a strong education can be more powerful than lower
social position.
Usually low-income teenagers or people in general are more exposed to bad or immoral
behaviors for several reasons, like the lack of money, education, and opportunities; and the
environment where they live. For those reasons is more common to think that those teenagers
could easily acquire bad behaviors like what they mention in the article: risky behaviors, such
as drinking large amounts of alcohol, having unsafe sex and using hard drugs. Those behaviors
are not just risky for health; some of them are also illegal.
The amazing thing in this article is to realize that a good and strong education could help
those teenagers to reduce risky behaviors because it shows that your social position doesnt
matter when you allow knowledge and education to change your life and give you new
opportunities. It shows the power of a good education which is interesting in grow people with
good knowledge and good behaviors.
My personal experience about this topic is very similar with the study that this article
expose because I have seen many teenagers who have changed their life just with an appropriate

guide and a better and more complete education. In this case the curricular education was not the
only thing that helped them. They start to learn music and different instruments in a highperforming, in this case, music school where they receive an excellent music education and also
a good education to turn into better persons.
There is still a percentage of students that practice risky behaviors in those schools but
we can see the difference with lower-performing schools (36% risky behaviors in highperforming schools and 42% in lower-performing). We can conclude that, like Dr, Michael said,
better education will lead to better health and I also think that in better persons.