Student Success Statement

                                    Ben Carson

• Born in the slums of Detroit in deep poverty

• His mother and father divorced

• His mother came from a family of 24 children 

• His mother could not read

• His mother raised Ben and his brother, Curtis

• Ben was the worst student at his grade school 

• Ben becomes top student in his school

• Ben becomes a world renowned surgeon 

" I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and I can change that(poverty). It depends upon hard I want to work, and I have decided that I would change it."