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When beat reporting requires life experience you lack

I am the education reporter but I do not have kids and cannot afford the mortgage in the school districts I cover so I feel like a fraud writing about issues I do not live.

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You feel like a fraud reporting on schools you can't afford to live near and have no kids in.

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