i don’t look down on people, not even a little bit for not doing college or even high school.
One of the things I like about America is that we don’t discard people just because they didn’t meet the grade in a certain area. There are lots of different paths to success.
And you don’t have to agree with what most people define as success either.
Perhaps, but think about it. This is an example where her parents flat out exploited their child’s talent for their own short term self interest. Their is no way a middle school child can wisely make that calculation. This is not someone who had to drop out of school take in washing to support her brothers and sisters because the parents were incapacitated. They ruthlessly viewed their daughter as a commodity as a path to riches. If the “wiki bio” is to be believed at least the mother had second thoughts.