This was really eye-opening. Mostly.
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18. ((By scholarship tho. I worked hard to have my bassoon lessons))
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs.
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels.
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (My Gee did for my 19th birthday)
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child.
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
24. Your parents owned their own house or apartment before you left home..
25. You had your own room as a child.
26. You had a phone in your room before you were 18
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school (My senior year)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.
Lessons: I'm assuming they mean instrumental and so on. I was very fortunate, and had piano lessons from age seven, although we didn't have a piano of our own at that point. The other lessons -- judo, speech/drama -- came as part of our school tuition. Damn right, we snatched those freebies up when we could. *G*
Private High School: Actually, I went to the same private school K-12, but more than half of that was on a scholarship shared with my best friend (a coincidence that delighted us). Purely grades-based, and we worked damned hard to keep 'em.
Summer Camp: One of these was offered to us in grade 12. It was supposed to be a 'bonding experience'; y'know, work as a team in the Rugged Bush, aquire self-confidence and etc. Almost our entire year-group went along. The rest of us couldn't afford to (total package ran a bit over $200), and spent a week and a half going to school 8.30-3.30, where they put us to work scraping up chewing gum and scrubbing schooldesks. Seriously. After the fourth day, we all agreed to quit attending, and that was the one and only time that my parents advocated truancy.
Original Art: My grandmother paints. My mother paints. My father used to do watercolours. Damn right, we had original art!
Heating Bills: In one house, we had a fireplace, and split wood for it ourselves. In the other, we had a single radiator (I'm not sure what that's called in American) for the living room. Heating? We didn't even have air conditioning! No-one did.
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18. ((By scholarship tho. I worked hard to have my bassoon lessons))
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs.
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels.
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18.
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (My Gee did for my 19th birthday)
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child.
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
24. Your parents owned their own house or apartment before you left home..
25. You had your own room as a child.
26. You had a phone in your room before you were 18
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school (My senior year)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.
Lessons: I'm assuming they mean instrumental and so on. I was very fortunate, and had piano lessons from age seven, although we didn't have a piano of our own at that point. The other lessons -- judo, speech/drama -- came as part of our school tuition. Damn right, we snatched those freebies up when we could. *G*
Private High School: Actually, I went to the same private school K-12, but more than half of that was on a scholarship shared with my best friend (a coincidence that delighted us). Purely grades-based, and we worked damned hard to keep 'em.
Summer Camp: One of these was offered to us in grade 12. It was supposed to be a 'bonding experience'; y'know, work as a team in the Rugged Bush, aquire self-confidence and etc. Almost our entire year-group went along. The rest of us couldn't afford to (total package ran a bit over $200), and spent a week and a half going to school 8.30-3.30, where they put us to work scraping up chewing gum and scrubbing schooldesks. Seriously. After the fourth day, we all agreed to quit attending, and that was the one and only time that my parents advocated truancy.
Original Art: My grandmother paints. My mother paints. My father used to do watercolours. Damn right, we had original art!
Heating Bills: In one house, we had a fireplace, and split wood for it ourselves. In the other, we had a single radiator (I'm not sure what that's called in American) for the living room. Heating? We didn't even have air conditioning! No-one did.