As the wife of a Princeton alumnus, I would like to thank you for printing the interview with Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 (A Moment With, March 6), which I found very moving. I am a board member of a Pittsburgh charity that offers scholarships to smart but indigent students attending low-achieving schools so that the students may attend private secondary schools. Like Justice Sotomayor, our students struggle not only with academic challenges, but also with the disparities of wealth and culture.
I would like to see alumni leaders like Michelle Obama ’85 and Justice Sotomayor, both beneficiaries of excellent Princeton educations, make it part of their missions to raise awareness of the importance of secondary-school education in escaping poverty and of the profound impact a stable family can make to the outcome of a child’s success.