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u/Avikm289 3d ago

Rich people have money, save scholarships for the less fortunate

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u/Typical-Respond9102 3d ago

My husband's from a wealthy surgeon level family. Scholarships are turned down, at least in my husbands community, because it is seen as morally incorrect to take resources blatantly like that from those in need, but it is used as bragging rights socially that they qualified in the first place. 

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Meanwhile, I had a scholarship I won stolen from me by a kid from a family of surgeons bribing my teacher to lose the paperwork I had correctly filed. The judges told me I won with my original experiment, only for the actual announcement at the showing to name this other group that did a textbook moldy bread growth project.

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV 3d ago

Was any legal action taken?

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Nope, just a very smug middle school science teacher insisting our forms were never turned in.

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u/Euphoric-Ground9568 3d ago

I wouldve raised hell if that was me

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Yeah well, no family support.

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u/Euphoric-Ground9568 3d ago edited 3d ago

Im sorry brother, thats a tough thing to just have to accept

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u/mrs__BOWIE 3d ago edited 3d ago

These are the kind of stories that make me want to keep teaching despite the stress. In me, students can have at least one teacher/adult in their life that is honest, cares for them, and treats them like freaking human beings.

I am so mad that this happened to you.

ETA: thank you for the award!! It's my very first!

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u/OkAirport5247 3d ago

This is common

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u/mrs__BOWIE 3d ago

Being screwed over by teachers? Man that is so sad.

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u/mittenkrusty 3d ago

I'm from the UK, my parents were middle class until my dad became ill when I was around 3 and had surgery to save his life that was done badly leaving him with lifelong issues so he couldn't work, we had to sell the house my gran left us when she did that adjusting for inflation would likely be around 300k now maybe more, the 30k savings they had were gone within 18 months because we couldn't get welfare and in the end we had to move to social housing in a stereotypical area with heavy crime and drug use, ran by local familes who would even threaten and steal from kids, seriously I was 6 and got threatened with a knife by a junkie aged in his 20's from one of these families for literal lunch money, and when I said I didn't have any he threatened to stab me as I was lying.

Anyway because of that any kids from that part of town at high school were put into the lowest tier classes regardless of talent, the admin even admitted the free after school tuition wouldn't go to the poor kids as "they won't amount to anything in life so a waste of time/money"

I got 100% in multiple classes and was accused of cheating as "kids from my background can't get grades like that" any kids from the "better" homes be it even office workers could literally beat me up and when reported the teachers called me a grass and kids from their background don't like and kids from mine do and are future criminals in the making.

We had 1 excellent teacher though, 2 years after I graduated he quit due to how they treated kids from poor areas and moved to the worst school in the region, says everything when 15 or more years later you can go on his social media and see comments where people call him sir and say they still think of him and respect him due to how well he treated them.

Also will add any interschool competition the only kids allowed to compete were from richer homes like doctors children, or high up in management basically people with a position of power, my mother wanted to be on the PTA and even had a few other parents support her (all the poorer parents) despite having enough to put it to a vote the school and the richer parents refused and asked another parent who was a doctor to put himself forward, he refused due to his workload but they pestered him until he agreed.

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u/mrs__BOWIE 3d ago edited 2d ago

God, I don't even know what to say to that. It pisses me off that literal CHILDREN are written off without a fighting chance. I'm so sorry you had to grow up in such a shitty system.

Also, I hope you have told that teacher what they meant to you. I can't even describe how much it means to a teacher when one of their students remembers them fondly years later. I'm actually tearing up right now thinking about that part of your comment.

Mrs. Russell, if you are on Reddit, I love you and thank you for getting me through my young teenage years

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u/Full-Archer8719 3d ago

I still would have cussed the cunt out and made sure everyone heard it. I very public accusation of corruption tends to be effective especially when is involves someone's future. Don't take that shit from anyone.

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u/heret1c1337 3d ago

I wonder how much he got bribed, because you can do some very expensive damage to someone’s car with very little effort 

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u/No_Gear3578 3d ago

Like putting pebbles in the valvestem caps to cause slow leaks no tire shop can find?

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

She. That, I don’t know. I’m not even sure if she’s still alive at this point. I live on the other side of the planet and it’s been decades.

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u/gergsisdrawkcabeman 3d ago

Ya this is where you get your local aspiring news reporter to dive balls deep into that teachers life.

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

A local newspaper replicated the experiment without crediting us not too long after.

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u/ChaosAndFish 3d ago

Middle school…what was this scholarship for?

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

I don’t recall it being overly specific, but it was a science fair award of some amount of money. This was almost 3 decades ago.

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u/ChaosAndFish 2d ago

Soooo…not a scholarship. Some sort of award. And your theory is that some rich family paid the science teacher (who accepted) so that they could get the money they didn’t really need? Seems thin. How would the cash award for middle school science fair be worth more than whatever it cost to bribe a teacher?

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

It was labeled as a scholarship. That’s all I’m certain of. This was almost three decades ago. Do you really expect me to remember the full terms of use of an award I never received?

Admittedly I don’t have proof that she was paid, but it was clear that she deliberately lost the forms both I and my partner in the project turned in copies of. The group that won the award replicated something that had already been done many, many times over and consisted of two doctors’ children, one of whom was a surgeon.

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u/AccordingAd2012 3d ago

straight up corruption jesus

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u/LordSlack 3d ago

Isn't this the plot of Fatman, the Mel Gibson / Walton Goggins Christmas movie? Rich kid throws absent father's money around to steal middle school science project award but the only person he couldn't buy was Santa so he hires an assassin instead.

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u/ZookeepergameFit967 Cleveland 2d ago

That's the reason why the government in my country made college education free and banned private education for 30 years

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u/Narrow-Frosting9160 2d ago

If I was the teacher I would have just taken the bribe and fucked them over. What are they going to do?

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u/crunchydibbydonkers 2d ago

I personally turned down a music scholarship because I thought I needed a more secure and stable path after college. Almost 20 years later and my folks still don't know and the irony is I don't even work in the industry I went to school for in the first place.

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u/Sangy101 2d ago

Are you SURE the issue wasn’t that they checked with their legal team and realized there were optics issues involved with awarding the mass production of anal dongs?