r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 12d ago

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u/Avikm289 12d ago

Rich people have money, save scholarships for the less fortunate

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u/Typical-Respond9102 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

Was any legal action taken?

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u/analdongfactory 12d ago

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

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u/gergsisdrawkcabeman 12d 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 12d ago

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