I was born with a nice assortment of learning disabilities. I'm never sure whether it was a good or a bad thing that my family was the way it was. My father and both my grandfathers were lawyers. My mother and both my grandmothers were college graduates. It was decided early on that I would go to college too, if it killed me.
(It came close.)

A different family might have said to themselves, "Oh well, she's a girl, she'll get married. She doesn't need Algebra." (I haven't had a lot of use for it, which is good because I have no aptitude for it. But my parents insisted I take two years.) That was not an uncommon view in the fifties, sixties and even the seventies.

If I had been born into a different family I might now be illiterate or semi literate, that limits your options a bit.

I'm lucky I wasn't born into a family of athletes. I am not well coordinated. If I'd had to focus on sports, I think I might have killed myself.

The point I am trying to make is that different families value different things, and pass those values along to their kids. You can challenge those values, but it's going to be tough. If Mum and Dad don't think studying is important, don't expect them to turn down the telly so you can do your maths.

Incidentally, if you REALLY want to get a black look in Great Britain, use the American word for something. We're rather amused when someone from across the pond says boot instead of trunk or cinema instead of movies. The British will correct you immediately if you say trunk instead of boot or movies instead of cinema.