I did read her post (which came after mine) and I'm talking about parents who are driving $50,000 SUVs, not the parent dropping their kid off in the beat up Toyota.

I also wonder how they have money to have the girls' hair done every couple of weeks. I've never priced out what doing all those tiny braids and adding in extensions cost, but I'm sure it's not cheap.

I grew up on welfare - food stamps, state aid, health, dental and vision covered from the age of 6 - 15. Once my sister graduated high school, my mom made too much money. My dentist was a mean jerk and my eyeglasses were butt ugly. I also grew up knowing that being on welfare was NOT a good thing and I should do everything I could to avoid it. My mom's cars were always old, my clothes were usually hand me downs (being the youngest sucks!) and my mother cut my hair until I was 12 and rebelled.

I do see a sense of "entitlement" with some of my poor kids and that bothers me.

Veronica