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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
Absolutely right the no one is a spokesperson for anything.  Poor people are not monoliths, just as white people are not monolith, nor are Christians, Muslims, upper middle-class people, etc.

You may have first-hand experience to speak on a matter, but that does not make you a spokesperson.  Nowhere near it.

And your description of the FA landscape is truly LOL and shows an inability to grasp simple math.  Please enlighten us on why, in a world where schools have finite budgets, allocation of FA is not a zero-sum game.  [/quote]

For elite schools with a million plus dollars to hand out in aid it most certainly is NOT a sum zero game. It is very much a "who they want to invest in game." 
So I guess there are never spokesmen? Huh? That's a new one. I guess the word is just a fantasy. You like I use absolute terms. I never said I spoke for ALL poor people. I said, and I stand by it, I have a much better idea of what is on the average poor person's mind than you do. The real issue is your inability to see that you are equally, if not more, in no position to speak on whether private schools are on the radar for poor people. You so arrogantly assume they must want this, as it's surely their avenue to rid themselves of poverty -- and oh gosh your charity helped. Ridiculous. 
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