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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here.  I think OP is very thoughtful and extremely generous, I would just makes sure she knows the whole story.  Call it "an axe to grind" if you want, but there are people who play the system like a game. I would just make sure it is the "most" needy family, not just one that claims one thing, come to find out another, altogether.

I am certainly hoping/thinking/believing that the situation I describe is a miniscule minoroty. OP didn't elaborate too much, so I thought she should be apprised. [/quote]

Maybe I misread and you weren't also the post that went off on how I think my family is "immune", but if you are then I don't see how that post could possibly be read as apprising the OP that some people cheat.

I will also say that, at least in my situation, I don't pretend to know whether our family is the "most needy" at our school.  I guess it's possible that some anonymous donor who doesn't know us from Adam approached the school and asked them to pick the most needy family to benefit, but I doubt it.  What I think is more likely is that either a relative or a friend who knows my kids and cares about them as individuals paid.  I have, for example, several relatives who sent their own kids to Catholic schools, and continue to support Catholic schools.  One of them may have felt this was a way to both help my family, and to help the school.  It's also possible that the money came from one or more of my kids' classmates.

I don't think that accepting the money, given that we might not have been the "most needy" at our school and certainly aren't the "most needy" in our area, is in the same category as lying about our situation, something we didn't do. [/quote]

If you didn't mislead about your situation, and it was truly only for a few months, then no - PP doesn't apply to you.  PP wasn't referring to a couple months, but much more.[/quote]

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