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Originally Posted by Margar
well I personally know several people who were in that situation. I'm just speaking from my own actual experience. I went to high school right next to a catholic k-8 school, and most of the people who used to go there, couldn't afford to comtinue on to a private high school, so they came to Ellet (my HS). not only that, but I've also heard other peoples' stories of their parents working 2 or 3 jobs to pay for their schooling. My step aunt and unle both worked 2 jobs to send their son to a private school.
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Well, fair enough, but I honestly don't think that's as often the case as some might think. And, well, if a parent would prefer to send their child to a private school and have to pay for it, that's their problem. The state provides education for your tax money.
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besides- even if a kid DOES come from a rich family, the kid will still need to get their own job and make their own money when they grow up. it's not like all, or even most, rich kids just get a free ride from their parents as long as they live. you see that on tv and stuff, but it's not really like that for most people.
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I'm aware of that, but that's the case with universities and student finance here. They rely on the income of your parents to see how much they need to give you often, even though by that point you may have decided to leave home altogether, or your parents just refuse to pay for you. And well, some parents are dickish enough to charge rent to their children. Despite this, however, at least rich kids have the ability to get a "free ride" from their parents, or probably have reasonably-sized accounts as is, or at least aren't in need when they leave school, just in a neutral position of wanting to earn money rather than make up for a loss. Those who are in debt when leaving a private school, however, will need the jobs to pay for their costs, but as I say, the state provides education for you.
Lower class people however are often in debt anyway by way of their low position in life meaning they have to pay off various debts, or simply don't have the money to spare and so need as much of it as they can get just to survive. Especially in America where the system's practically designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, or to exclude the poor altogether. Here at least we have a lot of costs paid for us, and so don't need to save up for health-care or otherwise because the state pays most of that for us, but even then we're still struggling. America doesn't have any of that.
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and thirdly, these numbered class levels you speak of are completely new to me. where do you pull those from?
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What little I learned from my law teacher, who was also a sociology teacher, so she always pointed out whenever she was referencing her sociology lessons. There are five social classes, all being based on their economic situations. I needed to know this because most magistrates are mostly from class III for example, the middle-class, which means they're managers or employers who can actually afford to take a day off once in a while to become magistrates because they make so much as-is.