'Class-passing': how do you learn the rules of being rich?
Oh, this article!!
“In Atlanta, Baird managed to get a place at one of the better public schools, the one where rich white kids went. At first they told his mom there was no room; there literally wasn’t a spare desk. “So she got on the bus to Home Depot and bought a desk,” Baird remembers. “She dragged it back to the school and said, ‘You can just stick the desk in a corner of one of a classroom and my son will sit there. He’s extremely well behaved.’ And they said ‘OK’.”
#class #socialmobility #americanmyths
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/poor-americans-poverty-rich-class?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
