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Your privilege is showing. You are confusing the unimportant variations within the middle class to the larger inequalities in our population.

If the school has your child on the list for Free and Reduced Meals because you signed up for that service, and the school counselor fills your child's backpack with canned food and clothes before each school break, and the teacher notices that your child is hungry in class, and cannot bring in headphones, or field trip money, or anything like that, then obviously they know the family is poor.

In our Bethesda school, this happens. I'm on the PTA Board, I help organize donations. In schools in Silver Spring and elsewhere, there are so many children eligible for FARMS that MCPS just institutes free breakfast for all students, to minimize social impact, but they still know who can afford to buy/bring lunch, and who cannot.

Get your head of your bubble and see the world for what it is, it will help you understand why people vote the way they do.

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