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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Exactly. The high income folks hire cleaners, etc. so they can spend non-work hours with their children. Poor working parents can’t do that. [b]I think mentorship by the well off kids [/b]is a great idea, although they should be a year or two older. A “big brother/sister” from the same grade might be a bit, ummm, awkward.[/quote]

AHEM.

I do not believe that well-off kids intrinsically have something to offer just by virtue of being born to the "right" parents. This is not 19th century France. We don't believe in noblesse oblige, and my child's classmates are not here to provide college resume fodder for some rich kid from Bethesda who thinks he is "helping" by telling them about the time he went skiing in Switzerland.

If MCPS wants to set up a mentorship program, they can do so by providing kids with mentors who look like them and have faced the same challenges and obstacles, not some kid named Chase who thinks he has important lessons to impart about bootstraps becuase his dad made him start as an "intern" at the family company.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. [/quote]

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