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How Teaching the Wealthy Can Create Resentment Toward Your Students

I teach at a private school and love my students but I know I'm helping reproduce class privilege and sometimes I look at these privileged kids and feel angry at them for something that isn't their fault.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When one's work inadvertently serves to perpetuate inequality, it can generate complicated feelings toward the very people one is meant to serve.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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