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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes a spokesperson is that my family was, in fact, one of those poor people. What makes me a spokesperson is that many of my family members are currently those poor people that I refer too. See, despite my current income I actually know, hang around, friends with many of those poor people that you think of in the hypothetical.[/quote]
Well, that's just the height of arrogance.  How in hell can you be a spokesperson for poor people any more than I can be a spokesperson for people who are my gender, my race, or my socioeconomic status?  You may know how a small subset of people think by having lived and interacted with them, but it takes quite a bit of gall to then claim that you can speak for a whole demographic.

Claiming that only upper-middle class families should get FA because they meet a minimum threshold to afford a $40K private school is about as class-perpetuating and inegalitarian as one can be.  Awfully hypocritical if your family was in fact poor.[/quote]

By your reasoning, then no one is a spokesperson for anything. LOL. Like I said, I feel qualified to speak on the matter since I'm fairly sure I have a much better idea about what is going on in the minds of poor people more than you do. And umm, I never said that ONLY upper-middle calls families should get anything. What I said was your argument that somehow upper middle-class people are undeserving or do not contribute to diversity is a bunch of BS and based on some false notion of who you think would most benefit and why. Having been poor I would never say a poor person would not benefit from FA. Of course they would. Duh! I am all for any poor person, lower middle class, upper middle class -- whoever - who wants to send their child to private school getting FA in whatever amount they need to make it possible! I am all for donating to the annual fund and any other fundraising activities my DC's school has (which I do despite also being on FA). The fallacy of your anger towards the upper middle class, is that somehow our FA is impacting the ability of some lower middle class or poor person to get FA. It is not! When a school gives out FA, do you think they are handing it out to the upper middle class first and screwing the poor kid who they really want to admit? You cannot possibly think that. LOL. As a family who receives 60% I know a few of the families who are getting close to full aid (say 96% FA). I also know quite a few families getting only 10% FA. And before you ask how could I possibly know, people divulge a lot more than people on DCUM are willing to admit. My point is this, there is a full range of FA awards at any given school. To the extent that a school wants to award more money to a poor family or lower middle class family it will. This foolish idea that a school would reject a student they really want because it would prefer to give upper middle class families 10% FA each is not true. Schools admit who they really want and they give money to who they want. Period. If you are lower middle class and did not get in or did not get enough aid -- read between the lines: they did not really want you. Hard pill to swallow, but that is reality![/quote]

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