Gonna take a moment here to vent. So I'm working with this young guy and he somehow starts telling me about how the Gov of Kansas is in hot water for spending $50,000 or so on a new piano for a well-to-do school and only spending $10,000 on an inner city school piano. I remarked how that does seem lopsided. He then proceeded to inform me how things work. Rich suburban schools get more money because they have higher property taxes. So they are better. Inner city schools get less money because their property taxes are lower which is why they are not as good. He follows this string of enlightenment with "and who wants to waste money on inner city schools?" He kept on talking trying to validate his point but I couldn't get past his "waste money.." statement. I then began forming a retort in my head citing a number of historical figures that have come from what he seems to think of as lower society. Then it hit me. It would be a lost effort.
My family is neither rich nor poor. My kids have and do go to a Title 1 School due to where we live. When a former art teacher at my kids school remarked that none of the kids would ever win a talent contest because of where they came from. I was pissed then too. I have little to no patience for people that feel their class makes them better than others. Take that away and you truly have nothing. To bad money can't buy character.
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