Student success statement

 Ben Carson

Ø  Born in the slums of Detroit,

Ø  In deep poverty

Ø  His mother and father divorced

Ø  His mother came from a family of 24 children

Ø  His mother couldn’t read

Ø  His mother raised BEN and his brother Curtis

Ø  Ben was the worst student in his grade school class

Ø  Ben becomes the top student in his school

Ø  Ben becomes a renowned doctor

A Choice: Poverty or Prosperity

“I hated Poverty.

Poverty is more of a

Choice than anything

Else, and I can change

That( poverty).it

Depends upon how

Hard I work,

and decided that I

would change it.”

What he stated is true it only took one special person too change the story written for ben and edit it  so that his story wouldn't end but continue until his story was published and finished.