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I have this one student who's about as high risk as it can get. Young black girl 1 year out of jail and and 8 months pregnant without a soul on her side. She's the one person I've been been bending over backwards to keep because I know she needs an advocate.
For two weeks now I've been raising alarm bells about her not having what she needs to complete classes remotely. Sending emails, meetings. Begging someone to help her with a computer. We finally got her one but it they're cheap and it didn't work properly.
TWO WEEKS
"She can't log into classes"
"No she can't go to campus she's 8m pregnant and takes the bus"
"No she can't just GET A RIDE can we just send one to her??"
Finally my boss gets sick of hearing me and decides he needs to get out of the house and says he will take it there
"She can't log into classes"
"No she can't go to campus she's 8m pregnant and takes the bus"
"No she can't just GET A RIDE can we just send one to her??"
Finally my boss gets sick of hearing me and decides he needs to get out of the house and says he will take it there
I get a text after the dropoff "wow, very humbling experience, you would not have felt safe there" 
that's a lot of assumptions sir but okay thanks for doing the thing
that's a lot of assumptions sir but okay thanks for doing the thing
2 hours later we get a several paragraph email about how humbled he was and how it's our duty to find people like her and help them and how we all should be grateful bla bla bla
Like, on one side I'm glad that it took him to almost his 40's to experience profound poverty even thirdhand but damn you tone deaf motherfucker, you aren't anyone's white savior. Welcome to knowing the stakes I guess.
I just found it so condescending as someone who grew up in those environments to be told that. Poor people are people not your fucking eagle scout badge for being a good samaritan
And this is a school not a food cupboard. I'm not "helping" anyone toward tens of thousands of dollars of debt unless they want to be helped. Twats.
