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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But you don't get it.  I have had kids in the hospital, too. Here is part of another post, talking about just this: "But of course this is not how it works. It is the people without privilege who learn the real unfairness of the world at a very young age. Privileged children only learn about fairness on an individual level. They are rarely taught about the structural unfairness of the world."

That is what I am saying.  You think you are immune to "life happening" and you either don't even realize it, or do everything to avoid "that life", or would never admit it.

No one is entitled to anything. Ever.  No one is entitled to being "compensated" because their family is in the hospital, as mine have been.  Don't pretend you know me or what my family has been through.

You think you are immune.  You are not.[/quote]

I am sorry, I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t also have a kid with a terminal illness.

I am confident that my kids, who have two parents  (well had, we now have a SAHP) working in fields that provide direct service to people living in poverty, can finish a school year they started at our parish school and still learn about structural inequality.  I am not sure why you think it critical that my kids learn that lesson right at that moment.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to start a thread about how no one should send their kid to private school, or affluent public school for that matter.

I don’t think I am immune.  I never said I would “do anything”, but I also don’t think it’s fair to judge me for accepting a gift that was freely given, or to judge a friend or family member for choosing to spend their money that way.  [/quote]

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