I was the kid who got to sit in the auditorium while kids whose parents could pay for field trips and extra...
I was the kid who got to sit in the auditorium while kids whose parents could pay for field trips and extra activities had a chance to explore life a little more. That's one of the earliest memories I have of knowing there was something different between me and the other kids. It was a lot longer before I realized it was a socioeconomic issue.
Is it fair to children that $10 separates them from their peers? Ten dollars isn't that much money. A thousand dollars would have allowed the rest of the students to attend the fair. Would it have been so hard to ask the community to help? A business or two? Other parents? Instead, the school chose to teach a harsh lesson to about 100 students: you are less than.
Some of those kids won't ever unlearn that lesson. I was fortunate, or perhaps it's just not in my nature to consider myself less than anyone. A few though, they might take a minute to self-reflect - to realize that we're all equal - that our pants go on one leg at a time, that we all drink at eat, sleep and poop. That the only true thing that separates us is man made constructs designed to do nothing more than drive wedges between people who are otherwise equal.
via Cara Evangelista
Originally shared by ****
And people worry about for-profit schools having the wrong incentives....
http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/no-pay-no-play-kids-who-cant-pay-10-fee-banned-from-school-carnival/
Is it fair to children that $10 separates them from their peers? Ten dollars isn't that much money. A thousand dollars would have allowed the rest of the students to attend the fair. Would it have been so hard to ask the community to help? A business or two? Other parents? Instead, the school chose to teach a harsh lesson to about 100 students: you are less than.
Some of those kids won't ever unlearn that lesson. I was fortunate, or perhaps it's just not in my nature to consider myself less than anyone. A few though, they might take a minute to self-reflect - to realize that we're all equal - that our pants go on one leg at a time, that we all drink at eat, sleep and poop. That the only true thing that separates us is man made constructs designed to do nothing more than drive wedges between people who are otherwise equal.
via Cara Evangelista
Originally shared by ****
And people worry about for-profit schools having the wrong incentives....
http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/no-pay-no-play-kids-who-cant-pay-10-fee-banned-from-school-carnival/
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you know, punishment so you will stop being poor