Our presswalah's son comes every evening to deliver our ironed clothes. He is about the same age as my boys. Like them, he attends a private school.
By working in his family business, the child is picking up work ethics and skills that will be useful to him throughout his life. Meanwhile, my kids spend their evenings honing their skills on Google Sheets or reading a science book.
Eventually these two sets of kids will compete on #merit for the same college seats and jobs, even though my kids have access to a better school, better tools, better nutrition, more leisure.
If my kids can't make it through the competitive college admissions, we will blame reservation/affirmative action, then buy them a seat in a private university.
When they eventually become successful in life (which I am confident they will), society will credit their #hardwork, #intelligence and #genes for their success. No one will talk of their #privilege. No one ever taught me about my privilege (Okay, maybe they did, but I wasn't listening).
In college I noticed how much harder it was for students who came from a poor background. Banks wouldn't give them educational loans, even though they were IIT students with a bright future, simply because their parents were incapable of guaranteeing their loans (IIT was willing to guarantee the loans but the banks didn't care).
Meanwhile, college costs will continue to rise faster than wages, putting even publicly funded universities out of the reach of students who need that education the most.
By working in his family business, the child is picking up work ethics and skills that will be useful to him throughout his life. Meanwhile, my kids spend their evenings honing their skills on Google Sheets or reading a science book.
Eventually these two sets of kids will compete on #merit for the same college seats and jobs, even though my kids have access to a better school, better tools, better nutrition, more leisure.
If my kids can't make it through the competitive college admissions, we will blame reservation/affirmative action, then buy them a seat in a private university.
When they eventually become successful in life (which I am confident they will), society will credit their #hardwork, #intelligence and #genes for their success. No one will talk of their #privilege. No one ever taught me about my privilege (Okay, maybe they did, but I wasn't listening).
In college I noticed how much harder it was for students who came from a poor background. Banks wouldn't give them educational loans, even though they were IIT students with a bright future, simply because their parents were incapable of guaranteeing their loans (IIT was willing to guarantee the loans but the banks didn't care).
Meanwhile, college costs will continue to rise faster than wages, putting even publicly funded universities out of the reach of students who need that education the most.