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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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. [/b]

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.

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

DP. You're making assumptions. No one said that PP's kids are "entitled to being 'compensated.'"

Of course there is enormous inequality in the world, and we should do our best to reduce it. If someone was able to pay for PP's kids to continue their education during a time when their sibling was ill, that's a good thing.

I'm not sure that I understand the point of your post. Do you think that privileged people should have to go through challenging times to knock them down a peg?[/quote]

My point is privileged people do not understand the word inequality and sacrifice like non privileged people do. Admit it or not, it still stands.

Is your biggest fear being knocked down a peg?  Seems it. [/quote]

I'm the poster who you accused of feeling immune.  If you wrote a thoughtful post about your concerns about how best to support privileged kids developing their understanding of inequality, I would be happy to participate, because it's a concern I share.  But to single out the OP and me in the way you did was weird.  I can absolutely believe that kids need to learn lessons about inequality, and also prefer to delay that message for a few months, while my kids are in the middle of something really really hard.

And yes, given that the event that "knocked me down a peg" was finding out that my child had a terminal illness, I would say that that was pretty close to my biggest fear.  The only thing I would find more scary would be something that killed more than one of my kids.   And while keeping my other kids in private school for a few months (covid happened, so they didn't finish the year, although that was the donor's intention) was far from my top priority, I appreciated that they were able to do so.  [/quote]

(DP). I'm so sorry. [/quote]

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