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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St. Pat's is incredibly wealthy to the point where even though most don't try to flaunt their wealth, it's just unavoidable. But, for the most part, people are fairly low-key.

As far as social climbing, I honestly have no idea what people are talking about. Lots of families there are already fairly established. I admit there are a few, but the rest seem fairly secure.

Aside from the usual parents on the infamous Dexter St and that surrounding neighborhood, the rest of the parents are friendly enough. I am of color and UMC parent, I never had too many problems. [b]The worse was that I was mistaken as a cook, but that family is known to be terrible and luckily my daughter has moved on to other friends.[/b]

I have gotten that from white people that are well below my class level and I don't assume that the parents at St. Pat's are immune to it. [/quote]

Oh my goodness.[/quote]

I have no idea why this would shock you. This is pretty much a common occurrence in the POC world. I don't really let it bother me because there's nothing wrong about being a cook. Also, it's also a character flaw to treat people differently because of their occupation. I might correct them, but eventually they will figure it out and have to deal with awkwardness. [/quote]

Yup.  I'm a Latina parent (kids attend another school -- not St. Pat's or NPS) and am frequently mistaken for "the nanny".  One parent told my husband (who is Swedish and German by descent) that I was very attentive and loving with the kids  I'm going to ask her for a letter of recommendation.  [/quote]

I keener re reading this and can’t figure out why you’d ask a nanny for a letter of recommendation.  I must be reading it wrong but it’s still bothering me that I can’t figure out what you’re saying![/quote]

PP is joking that she is going to ask the mother who mistook her for a nanny (and told PP's husband hwat a good nanny she is) for a reference.  Its funny but also sad.  I had a mother once make a comment to me that made it clear she thought another mother was the nanny.  I set her straight but it sucked.  It would have sucked way more though if I had been the mom she mistook for the nanny.  Too many people can be so stupid and thoughtless.

And BTW, its not elitist or classist to say that because no mother wants strangers to assume she is just the paid help to her own kids and its espcially eggregious when a stranger assumes you are a in "less-skilled" profession just because of how you look.[/quote]

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