A Poor Family

In a very exclusive private school near California’s

Silicon Valley, a third-grade teacher was lecturing her

upper-high-class students about the less fortunate. She

asked them each to write an essay about a poor family in the

area. One little girl’s paper began, “Once upon a time

there was a poor family. The father was poor. The mother was

poor. The children were poor. The nannies were poor. The

pool man was poor. The personal trainer was poor. The

gardeners were poor… This was a very poor family!”