Anent my previous post, I thought of a simple, one-question survey. The individual responses are only viewable to me, so the whole world won't be able to see the results.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 21
I qualified for free or reduced price lunches when I was in school.
Yes, from K-12
3 (14.3%)
Yes, for some portion of time
1 (4.8%)
No
12 (57.1%)
I'm not from the US
5 (23.8%)
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Date: 2012-04-09 06:48 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 08:31 pm (UTC)From:(From network; was intrigued both by this question and the previous one.)
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Date: 2012-04-09 09:23 pm (UTC)From:If the wealthy white suburban public school I went to had HAD free or reduced-price lunches (which they did not), I probably would've qualified for some portion of the time. As it was, the class barrier was whether or not you had to bring your lunch from home, because if you did, you couldn't afford the school lunches.
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Date: 2012-04-10 03:32 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-04-10 01:39 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-04-09 06:54 pm (UTC)From:I didn't take the poll because I don't know the right answer.
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Date: 2012-04-09 06:58 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 07:59 pm (UTC)From:Probably not, but my parents could not afford any "extras" that I really wanted like gymnastics lessons and playing sports when I was in school. I did do scouts, and by the time I was in Junior High I was paying for all my extras myself out of babysitting money. I started sitting professionally in the 4th grade.
My parents were very prudent financially and saved everything. By the time I was out of college 3 years I was earning more money than my dad, but they were able to help me go to the college I wanted to go to most.
My mother was the first in her family, and the only one of her 4 siblings to go to college. I think both of my father's parents were college educated.
--Beth