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When will you stop wanting upper SES families to invest their time, money, energy, intellectual skills, physical abilities, and most of all their most precious treasures - their children - and then not resent them for it? Sorry, but after a 50 hour work week, volunteer time on the sports-team-of-the-season, fundraising for the PTA, homework help, ferrying children to music or tutoring classes, trying to have a healthy meal or two as a family once a week, there is no time left for a sit-down conversation with the school community en masse about their feelings and resentments. Sorry - people have to prioritize. Raising money for the school and chaperoning on field trips and in-class participation isn't enough for some people. You seem to think you're entitled to a bigger slice of people's lives than there are in the actual pie. [/quote]

Yikes, your life sounds horrible. I'm sorry. It has made you defensive, pathetic, and miserable. No one is asking you sit down and SES-splain anything. Write a check, be done with it. If you have input, direct it to your pta in an email. And stop thinking of all of this as some kind of interminable chore. I'm just annoyed you think you speak for all upper SES families. You don't. Some of us aren't snobs who think our time is inherently more valuable because our house was more expensive. [/quote]

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