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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@ The Palm, Prime Rib etc.

I save money leading up to it, cut back on vacations, Christmas presents, Birthdays, whatever.

I get to said place, and discover that other patrons there are eating free. Same food, same service, but no cost to them.

Should I accept this? Oh, and my bill is larger than I thought, because I had the privelige of dining in the same room as a Diverse room.

This is reality. Enough of this PC bullshit[/quote]

Take your ass back to public if you want to complain.  As a family that gets significant aid, we struggle and "save money leading up to it, cut back on vacations, Christmas presents, Birthdays, whatever." to make our portion of the tuition payments.   I can assure you that schools make every family pay some part.  There is no zero cost.

And do you understand that for a family getting significant aid, that we also have to come up with money to pay for things during the year like camps, babysitters on random days off, in class costs - contributions for parties, teacher gifts.  It may be nothing to you to drop $50 here and there but we struggle to come up with the very meager $20 that we contribute.

The worst is that yes, there are many families that get aid who don't really truly need it.  They get known at the school and they cry poor when in fact their idea of "poor" is they won't be able to afford a Christmas break vacation this year for their family so they need aid.  This does happen.  I think sometimes parents would be surprised who gets aid.  I discovered that these families basically wait until after the official period to request aid has passed, go in with a sob story, never fill out any forms and get some form of aid. It sucks. [/quote]

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