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A Two Million Minutes Viewer in Richmond Makes a Change for Her Son's Future

Thank you for coming to Richmond this week. I am only sorry more of people did not come to see you! Maybe they were at a swim meet :)

Over the past few years I have noticed the lack of ambition coupled with a false sense of reality in the high school graduating students I know.  Thank you for sounding the alarm. Whether folks hear it before it's too late I can't be sure.

But I heard it and my 2 sons are being redirected. Instead of hiring a soccer coach to work with my son I am hiring a math tutor!

A Two Million Minutes Viewer Writes From India

Dear Bob, 

I was in India a few months ago visiting family and I thought of you. While there I was volunteering and teaching English at a government school and it gave me an entirely different perspective of your documentary.

The children there are pretty much at the bottom of the social ladder, many of them living in the slums. While their knowledge of English was non-existent, I happen to catch a bit of a math class one day where they were learning exponents. These so called underprivileged children were learning math concepts a good two years ahead of when I learned them in the US.

It was a real eye opener and I thought I would share it with you.

As it so happens, I was offered a job in India and decided to take. I recently started working for Tata Realty in Mumbai, lets see how I do when put side by side with my Indian educated counterparts.

Farah