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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I live in upper NW and chose to send my children to a public charter school that is Tier 1 (has a certain % of children who are FARM). We have the financial means to afford many things, but want my childen to have an appreciation for all that they have. I did not think that this would occur at a school with exclusively upper middle class kids.[/quote]

OP again.  With all due respect, this is the type of comment I see over and over and over again on DCUM.  Which is good, as far as it goes, but what I really want to talk about it is:  why wouldn't your child (the royal "your", not you PP) appreciate what they have just because the other 20 kids in his class also have that?  It's a different question, really.

Going further, if I decide to buy my son an iPad and a NorthFace jacket next year, but his friend Jimmy doesn't have these things because Jimmy's mom is poor, how is that better, [u]exactly,[/u] than the situation where many children in the class have iPads?   Why is iPad-less Jimmy inherently better?

This seems to be the line of reasoning underlying many comments like the one quoted, but I think it kind of falls apart upon examination.[/quote]

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