Things rich people dont know

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Anonymous wrote:I am a highschool teacher and this week we had some career volunteers/ life couches come and talk to the kids. One guy made his speech about being a first generation college grad and did a list of "things poor kids dont know but need to." My kids liked it and there has been a lot of chit chat about it this week. I decided to reverse the topic and ask them what they think might be some things rich people dont know and these are some kid bits of that convo...

1.) flatbread is really just pizza. "I was so confused about that word but every time its literally just been pizza."
2.) its awkward/embarrassing when you associate having a license to having a car. "Me turning 16 means nothing, Im poor"
3.) We dont grieve not having a father. We dont know another family structure. "Thats like crying because I dont have a brother, when Ive never had a brother. No one does that."
4.) One kid thought it was odd that the people who have the most clothes usually have washer and dryers at their house so in reality they need the least clothes. "If i didnt need quarters to wash I would only need like 3 shirts"

Even if they don't know they are grieving the lack of a father, they are. Check out research: greater poverty; higher substance use and abuse; higher rates of suicide; higher levels of crime; higher levels of sexual abuse; more high-school dropouts; worse GPAs; more sexual activity; more teen pregnancy.



You are wrong, I was fatherless, never had any of those issues and this is how prejudice starts

http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/

[Anonymous]

Judging by my college roommate (trust fund kid from the hamptons), how to clean. When it was his turn to clean the bathroom we caught him cleaning the tub/shower with the mop and later I came home to find our kitchen/living room looking like a foam party bc we ran out of dishwasher detergent, so he filled it with Dawn. “A” for effort though!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a highschool teacher and this week we had some career volunteers/ life couches come and talk to the kids. One guy made his speech about being a first generation college grad and did a list of "things poor kids dont know but need to." My kids liked it and there has been a lot of chit chat about it this week. I decided to reverse the topic and ask them what they think might be some things rich people dont know and these are some kid bits of that convo...

1.) flatbread is really just pizza. "I was so confused about that word but every time its literally just been pizza."
2.) its awkward/embarrassing when you associate having a license to having a car. "Me turning 16 means nothing, Im poor"
3.) We dont grieve not having a father. We dont know another family structure. "Thats like crying because I dont have a brother, when Ive never had a brother. No one does that."
4.) One kid thought it was odd that the people who have the most clothes usually have washer and dryers at their house so in reality they need the least clothes. "If i didnt need quarters to wash I would only need like 3 shirts"

Even if they don't know they are grieving the lack of a father, they are. Check out research: greater poverty; higher substance use and abuse; higher rates of suicide; higher levels of crime; higher levels of sexual abuse; more high-school dropouts; worse GPAs; more sexual activity; more teen pregnancy.



You are wrong, I was fatherless, never had any of those issues and this is how prejudice starts

http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/

Happy to hear your experience was different, but sadly the plural of antidote is not data.

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Anonymous wrote:During my senior year at an Ivy, someone told me that America was 40% Jewish and like 5% total black and hispanic.

No they just meant your Ivy was 40% Jewish

Actually they were probably from the NY suburbs. When I moved away from my NY hometown I was shocked to learn people in the rest of the country didn't get Jewish holidays off. Living there gives you a distorted idea of the population distribution in this country.

That's the case in most places. I asked my son a few years ago and he thought AAs were about 30% of the population. Meanwhile my Catholic enclave cousins didn't know Jews celebrate Thanksgiving and friends from northern Minnesota considered Italians "minorities".

My law school roommate went to a small college in Appalachia and she had never seen someone wearing a yarmulke before and asked me what it was after the first day of class. "Why were all those guys wearing beanies?" She thought it was a law fraternity. She also started law school with really long fake blue colored nails, she had gotten them done right before leaving home b/c to her they were the height of class/fashion.

The opposite of this would be my roommate from a wealthy area of Long Island .She thought America was 40 percent Jewish (that was her exact number) and 20 percent Asian until she was 20. She thought America was only about 2% black and Hispanic.

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So for 10-12 years I have volunteered with a church-based group that provides emergency financial assistance to people in our community (pay the heating bill, buy gas for your car so you can get to work, get the lights turned back on, etc.). We were called by a family whose water had been cut off by the sewage entity. It was after hours so there was no way to get it turned on until the morning. We ended up taking the family to a local McDonalds so that the children could go poop before going to bed. Peeing into a toilet with no water is okay but multiple people pooping into it is not good. It was either McDonalds or set up the kids and their mom with a toilet lined with plastic trash bags. We opted for the easy and less gross route. So we bought the kid sundaes and entertained them while their mom took the kids one-by-one back to the bathroom to go poop. Then we took them all back home. Life's really tough when you don't have running water in your residence.

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It depends upon how they became rich. Some people were poor to begin with, so they know the struggles of people who do not have much.

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That there is ZERO timely or courteous service when applying for food stamps or govt assistance. In most cities it is one of the most difficult and degrading processes one can experience soley to get resources to feed your children.


This is total bs. We had ebt in grad school and applied online. I never had to go anywhere.

New poster here: no that is the truth. I just applied to SNAP for the first time - family of 4, husband started his own business. We are paying employees but not making ends meet. It took over a month, multiple phone calls and finally sitting at the department of social services for two hours to finally get my card. And I’m college educated, polite, and proactive.

Not piling on, but why don't you get a job so that you don't have to use a SNAP card?

The vast majority of people on food stamps DO work. @$$hole.

I do not understand how people don't get this. Most, by far, of the people who get food assistance are the working poor.

There are military families on food stamps.

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That just because you don't have $10k cash laying around means you can't pay your mortgage (or the mortgage on the house you're about to buy).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
That there is ZERO timely or courteous service when applying for food stamps or govt assistance. In most cities it is one of the most difficult and degrading processes one can experience soley to get resources to feed your children.


This is total bs. We had ebt in grad school and applied online. I never had to go anywhere.

New poster here: no that is the truth. I just applied to SNAP for the first time - family of 4, husband started his own business. We are paying employees but not making ends meet. It took over a month, multiple phone calls and finally sitting at the department of social services for two hours to finally get my card. And I’m college educated, polite, and proactive.

Not piling on, but why don't you get a job so that you don't have to use a SNAP card?

Sure you are. And enjoying it. Thus, making the first PPs point.

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Anonymous wrote:That there is ZERO timely or courteous service when applying for food stamps or govt assistance. In most cities it is one of the most difficult and degrading processes one can experience soley to get resources to feed your children.

As it should be. Why have children if you can't feed them?

Are you suggesting they kill their children?

No I am suggesting that they abort the fetus if they know they cannot feed what will become a child.

What should one do if they fall on hard times after they have children?

Or can't afford an abortion and/or don't live near a clinic? Some states have 1 clinic for the state or large parts of the state. And abortions aren't free.