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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"You can send your children to private school and still have well rounded individuals by the time they're sent off to college. My parents made sure I knew that we were privileged without taking me to soup kitchens. Some examples, as a child, my toys were never stored or thrown away. I helped my mother pack them so they could be taken to organizations that helped poor families. I had an amazing West Indian woman who took helped to care for me, and with her help, we sent all my clothes to children in her country who were very poor.  I remember being excited to find out if they liked what we sent. '

OP - here's your answer. Would you want your kid to be a pretentious snob like this PP?[/quote]

I'm the pp you quoted and I welcome the opportunity to learn what was pretentious or snobbish about my post. My parents taught me to happily give to others. There's something wrong with that?[/quote]

PP, you made the aggregious DCUM mistake:  you identified yourself as rich (or at least when you were growing up) on a thread that will draw people who are openly hostile to that and who are bound and determined to vilify rich people.

I grew up solidly middle class - for real - not by DCUM standards.  I was very fortunate to work my rear off and now have a very lucrative career that allows my children to attend private school, although I did not.  I went to public school and had a similar experience to many of the PPs - same group of almost exclusively white gifted kids all the way through high school, although this, too, is deemed irrelevant info on this thread.

All I can say is that I hope my children grow up to be like you and that my lessons of helping others stick with them the way your mother's stuck with you.  To really date myself, I'll end with that really old expression:  don't let the turkeys get you down.[/quote]

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