“Most of us could have sacrificed to home or private school.”
WATCH IT, PAL. You don’t know us well enough to conclude that. For example, my family:
How could my kids show their faces to other children if I drove them around in a car that was more than 5 years old, pal?
How could they explain living in a small house, when all the other kids lived in larger ones, pal?
We’re in TEXAS, how could my kids explain not having at least an F-150 in the driveway, pal?
How could they relate to other kids, if they didn’t have smart phones and X-Boxes, pal?
In summary, they would have been SCARRED FOR LIFE, pal?
...of course it didn’t seem that way for my kids, and they had all of the above ‘deprivations’, I guess they’re the exception.
I said “most of us” on purpose. No need to get hostile.
Oh man too early in the morning for me to detect sarcasm. I literally have not had my coffee.
Yeah we lived in a bit of a dump and never ordered takeout. Our car was pretty bad. Vacations were visiting grandparents. It was a perfectly good life but we sure didn’t have new soccer cleats or destination birthday parties.
My kids’ friends did things like have paid clowns and characters and parties at Chuck E Cheese and swim parks and one memorably took the crew to New York City and went to a Broadway show. I very much appreciated their generosity. We had sleepovers and played stupid games and had homemade cake. That was fun, too.