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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Dad worked 3 jobs- every weekend, every holiday- in factories & as a janitor in a country club in the summer- so my mom could be a SAHM with 4 kids. (1 kid was hers BEFORE they married & he adopted him). We always had food, clean clothes but no free lunches, fresh air fund camp, or financial aid for college.  I worked Full-time to pay for my college- 8 years to get my BS.  Similar for my DW & we had to relocate to find any kind of jobs.

We sacrificed to pay for our kids' college. Our kids did NOT qualify for any special programs, scholarships, etc.  No one came to their school to advise on careers or give them any career/college insights. If we did NOT help them, they would not be able to eek out a living wage.

Sorry I have no sympathy for the child of a single mother or for poor children who get my tax dollars for special programs. [b]As a society, we need to help average, working class & middle class children, for a change[/b].

To the OP, as a teacher, you need to advise your students that not every white person with 2 parents are "rich". AND they have many benefits and programs not available to working & middle class people.[/quote]

Another person here with a similar upbringing.  I feel like as an adult I have no sympathy for all the various charitable appeals I hear for different groups because no one gave me any kind of handout.  I was able to go to college but I laugh when I think back about the whole application process.  I applied to one school--the state university--because that was the school I visited on a high school band trip for a music competition so I had physically been there once and seen it.  [/quote]

So what you're saying is, it was hard for you and rather than making it easier for other people so they don't have to experience what you did, you'd rather others struggle like you did?[/quote]

Not at all. I am not in a position to do so.  As an adult, financially, I continue to be impacted by the total lack of financial education and career counseling I never received.  My parents didn't know what they didn't know.  Compound interest, 401Ks, how a college major might impact future job earnings, how you can choose a job that provides some degree of satisfaction while also paying the bills--these were discussions that never happened in my house and I'm paying the price.[/quote]

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