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[quote=Anonymous]I attend private schools and was "poor" in comparison to the other kids.

I knew by high school that my definition of poor was not really what poor meant.  You know kids figure these things out - homogeneous group or not.

I don't think there would have been any value to me as a child to attend a school with truly "poor" kids as I wouldn't have valued there parents income status. It just doesn't have the same meaning for a kid.

What gave me a broader viewpoint was getting out into the working world at 15. I wanted to go to work - didn't have to - and through working retail, fast food, etc. I really began to more fully understand how lucky I was and appreciate how hard my parents had worked to get to where they were.  I realized that the job I did 20 hours a week that I thought was fun actually paid the bills for someone else and kept their kid clothed and fed.  It was in those years and through that experience that I really gained compassion and understanding. To this day, I can remember a lot of the women and men I worked with and remember mostly a lot of them worked way too hard for way too little money.[/quote]

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