Student Success Statement

• 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 couldn’t read
• His mother raised Ben and his brother, Curtis
• Ben was the worst student in his grade school class
• Ben becomes top student in his school
• Ben becomes a world renowned doctor

Ben Carson

I think all this that he has gone through and at last to become a world renowned doctor it shows that he never gave up to get where he wanted.