Help! Is my counselor being discriminatory?

AUGirl
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:52:49 +0000

True. But there’s not really much you can do… unless you ask to change guidance counselors.

But that’s not an option at my school. (We only have one gc.)

I mean… I’m in the super low income level. We’re not under the poverty line, but I think we’re about 2k from it. And I go to a private school. And my father is a lawyer. Do you know how many times I’ve been accused of lying because I said I wasn’t rich?

It kind of makes you miserable when kids whose parents might make two or three times as much as yours say that you’re rich.

If you act intelligent or your parents are hard workers… or if you carry yourself in a certain way… People for whatever reason will NOT believe that you are actually poor. Or disadvantaged or whatever.

And… it just puts you in an even worse place.