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This story took place in an ordinary school, in a class where pupils from wealthy families and those from less wealthy ones gathered.
The conflict over school desks was a lesson for people who consider themselves better than others
At a parent-teacher association meeting, a group of proactive mothers proposed collecting money to buy new school desks.
Several families immediately rejected this option, because the old desks were still perfectly adequate and, besides, they did not have enough money for this unnecessary purchase. In the end, seven families were in the minority — they simply did not have the means for new furniture.
But the group of wealthy parents dug in their heels
And here one of the fathers suggested collecting a little more money so that all the children would sit at the same school desks, especially since many parents could afford it.
But those same mothers who raised the issue refused and said that if some didn’t have the money, their children would simply sit at the old desks. The man who did not want to divide the class into rich and poor simply shrugged and did not argue. But he did not contribute money for it. Within a few days they brought new, beautiful school desks into the classroom, but only for those children whose parents had given money. And eight pupils from poorer families had to sit at the old desks. Moreover, they moved the old furniture into one corner, thereby creating a kind of ghetto for the poor students.
Oh, how proud the mothers were that their offspring sat in better places, and they couldn’t have cared less what the children who were thus pushed to the “edge of the class” felt.
It all resembled the premise of a TV show that once made fun of paid and unpaid medical care. But who would have thought that such absurdity could happen in real life. However, the joy of the wealthy did not last long.
The very next day they brought a total of eight new tables into the classroom, much better than those for the “chosen”
And with them children’s chairs that looked like this
It turned out that the man who stood up for the children from “poor” families was a very successful entrepreneur
He simply did not flaunt his wealth, so nobody knew how rich he was.
The fair father decided to teach a lesson to those who consider themselves better people just because their incomes are higher than others’.
And the same mothers who just a few days earlier did not want to hear about equality in the classroom were furious. Now, however, they declared that it was an insult to their dear children and complete discrimination.
And the father who arranged all of this called his action a social experiment. “After all, you yourselves wanted one group of children to have better desks than the other, so now it’s just as you wanted!”
