University graduate shrugs off family history of drugs and gambling to gain teaching degree

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Amy Briggs overcomes a family background of drug addiction and gambling — and joins thousands of other 'first-in-family' graduates at Western Sydney University.

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"No one in my family has ever been to university, so when I was growing up it just wasn't an option for me that I thought was possible.""I wanted to leave the area where I grew up in, the housing commission and crime … so in order to do that I needed to get a job and leave home, so I did that at quite a young age," she said.

During her degree at Western Sydney University, she was drawn to volunteering, working with kids with similar upbringings to her own. "So I was thinking of a way to be able to connect with these children, when I got home … and looked around at my boys and the amount of books that they are lucky enough to have."

 

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Addictive behaviours are not correlated with low IQ, it is a very specific genetic issue to do with dopamine regulation in the reward centers of the lower brain, not the higher centers. How well you manage that disorder may have some IQ correlation but education is also important

'they analysed UK data collected in a previous survey between 2009 and 2016, involving more than 12,500 adolescents aged 10-15.' 3 year old data in relation to social media is simply out of date and not really relevant

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