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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our income is about $90K, with no nest egg, and only renting rather than owning our home.

There's no way I'd describe myself as "Lower middle" or "working class".  I work with many people in those categories as a service provider, and easily realize how lucky I am to be able to provide for my family as I do.

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+1  Exactly.  With a 350K stock inheritance and 120K income, you are not working class.  With that inheritance, chances are at least one of you never lived in a working class family. Our HHI is also about 90K and we live frugally and well within our means. We aren't deprived in any way, feel no need to keep up with the Joneses, and I would never claim to be working class.  We face none of the tough decisions of true working class families.  None of them have a 350K safety net.  None of them could pay down a 500K house and have the safety net of that sort of equity.  You are not low income.  Given the rest of your post, I'd guess you are well-educated.  Having to work does not make a person working class.  No, you didn't cry poverty, but the claim to be working class rubs a lot of people wrong when they either come from that background (me), are actually working class, or work with/alongside people who are actually working class.  I have no problem with you asking whether a school might give you financial aid.  But the working class claim shows a pretty profound disconnect from reality and disregard for the real challenges that many people face.  [/quote]

Well-stated.[/quote]

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