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[quote=Anonymous]I think may people, especially the rich, are actually losing the point of the thread.  Some of the posts are digs at rich people.  But to me, this is about giving people a different perspective.  The OP was relaying what kids are observing.  That what was fascinating about the post.  I used to teach in an urban HS before law school and it was always fascinating when you asked the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up.  A few would say doctors, lawyers or whatever.  Most would say athletes, hairdressers, barbers, teachers, mailmen, cops.  From where they sat, those were the people that they regularly interacted with who were doing "well."  If you ask a HS kid in a more affluent HS, your answers would be MUCH different.  That is the underlying point of the OP.  Poor kids and rich kids see the world in different ways.

I grew up as poor as you can be.  There are some things that I experienced that my rich college roommates could never fathom.  I learned things about them and about how rich people live that I never knew.

While I grew up poor.  My kids did not.  So in order to not offend anyone, let me re-phrase the "question."

Here are a few things that I grew up dealing with in a poor family that my kids did not.  No judgment on the rich or poor.

1.  They never had to wear hand me downs after they grew out of baby clothes.  I wore hand me downs through HS.

2. They never got their holiday meals from charity drives.

3. They never had to participate in "adopt a family" programs at Xmas in order to get presents.

4. They never had to skip EC activities because they had to take care 3 siblings after school because their parents worked.

5. They never had to rely on benevolent teachers and counselors seeing their potential as the vehicle for getting opportunities because their parents were clueless.[/quote]

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