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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean it’s not hard to guess. [b]If your kid has AirPods, [/b]mentions going to Dubai on spring break and Morocco over the summer, has a Fjallraven backpack, etc., I can reasonably assume the parents are fairly well off. Those are the easy ones to guess but there are a decent number of kids who wear old ratty clothes and look like a mess but their parents have tons of money. [b]You wouldn’t necessarily know it to look at them because well to do white kids have the option of looking uncared for as a style choice knowing it won’t reflect on their parents and culture the way it does for minority kids. It’s a lot more subtle with those kids.[/b]  [/quote]

I have subbed in low income high schools and many of the kids have airpods.  [/quote]

This site again reminds me how sheltered and dense DCUM population is.

I have taught extensively in DC and other inner city school systems, where kids have to wear uniforms because of income disparity, etc.  You can ALWAYS tell the kids who only have 1 polo and 1 pair of khakis, and their polo is never washed because there isn't running water or a washing machine available at the shelter, and if they get paint on it one day in art class it's there for the next couple of school years.  Then the more well off kids have an endless supply of shirts and pants, and accessories to demonstrate their prosperity.  
 
I go to work 2 hours before the school opens with one of my admin, and we let kids come in and do laundry and bathe in the locker rooms.  That's a difference so many of you have never even [i]thought [/i]of. [/quote]

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