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Nikia

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11. Most extra curricular activites are expensive

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:26 PM

Dec 2013

As are summer enrichment activities, as are vacations, and trips to museums and theater. For richer families, these are a given. For poorer families, participating in these activities is a financial hardship.
It seems that schools, to save money, are making the students and families pay more for school sponsored activities that used to be free or low cost.

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Agree or disagree: Kids from poor and working-class families do not have the opportunities... [View all] YoungDemCA Nov 2013 OP

I doubt many on DU will deny that class priviledge exists. Scuba Nov 2013 #1

It starts early, too, with infants either at home with poor mothers or in day care Warpy Nov 2013 #2

Thank. Reagan. GeorgeGist Nov 2013 #3

There is no doubt that class is an issue, redstatebluegirl Nov 2013 #4

Don't confuse anecdotes with data. Igel Nov 2013 #9

Absolutely Agree dballance Nov 2013 #5

No doubt about it, elleng Nov 2013 #6

Poorer kids have smaller vocabularies. roody Nov 2013 #7

Agree. We are a middle class family and we notice an uptick in poor AllyCat Nov 2013 #8

Agree. LWolf Nov 2013 #10

Most extra curricular activites are expensive Nikia Dec 2013 #11