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sled735
Tell us how it turned out!
Judge Peter Bogaard refused to issue the girl’s request for more than $600 a week in immediate financial aid.
One of those disrespectful rants includes the contents of a voicemail Rachel Canning had left her mother which was read in court.
Told the judge: ‘I wanna s*** all over your face’, he said: ‘Have you ever in your experience seen such gross disrespect for a parent? I don’t see it in my house.’
The judge, went on to add that Rachel Canning had given her mom and dad, Sean: ‘The proverbial f you.’
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WhiteAlice
So yeah, kids actually need their parents help these days. Absolutely. Saw all of this firsthand, myself. I really feel for this girl if she doesn't win her case. She'll be screwed.
IrishCream
I haven't read all the resplies in the thread, but I just saw a clip about the case on MSNBC and remembered seeing this thread, so here I am lol.
As a mother of a recently turned 18 year old who lives in my home, as well as a person who was emancipated at 16, I have a few thoughts on this.
1st: This young lady needs to grow up! Life is not always fair and she just needs to put on her big girl panties, enroll in public school if she wants to finish her education (or get a job and pay for private school) and move forward. If she dislikes her parents so much, then just move on with life. No one says you have to maintain a relationship with your parents, I have zero relationship with my mother and it in no way hinders my life.
2nd: If she wants her parents to have any obligation to her financially beyond the legal age of adulthood then she needs to go home and FOLLOW THEIR RULES, period!
3rd: I agree 100% that the courtroom is no place for this nonsense. If her college fund is in her name, then make it about the college fund in said setting. HOWEVER, she is claiming that she needs emergency financial assistance for her every day living expenses while staying at the home of her friend. This is just laughable, one more time... GET A JOB! I heard McDonalds is hiring and heck, looks like minimum wage is about to go up lol!
This whole case is just a disgusting attempt at becoming a celebrity. I'll bet you dollars to donuts she gets her own reality show on one of the Discovery Network channels hahaha! And shame on anyone who watches it!
boohoo
IrishCream
I haven't read all the resplies in the thread, but I just saw a clip about the case on MSNBC and remembered seeing this thread, so here I am lol.
As a mother of a recently turned 18 year old who lives in my home, as well as a person who was emancipated at 16, I have a few thoughts on this.
1st: This young lady needs to grow up! Life is not always fair and she just needs to put on her big girl panties, enroll in public school if she wants to finish her education (or get a job and pay for private school) and move forward. If she dislikes her parents so much, then just move on with life. No one says you have to maintain a relationship with your parents, I have zero relationship with my mother and it in no way hinders my life.
2nd: If she wants her parents to have any obligation to her financially beyond the legal age of adulthood then she needs to go home and FOLLOW THEIR RULES, period!
3rd: I agree 100% that the courtroom is no place for this nonsense. If her college fund is in her name, then make it about the college fund in said setting. HOWEVER, she is claiming that she needs emergency financial assistance for her every day living expenses while staying at the home of her friend. This is just laughable, one more time... GET A JOB! I heard McDonalds is hiring and heck, looks like minimum wage is about to go up lol!
This whole case is just a disgusting attempt at becoming a celebrity. I'll bet you dollars to donuts she gets her own reality show on one of the Discovery Network channels hahaha! And shame on anyone who watches it!
This is the kind of though process that allows the "owners of capital" to control and crush the masses at will. They don't think this way nor do they raise their children to think any differently about family, offspring and the maintenance of multi-generational wealth. While such "self sufficiency" thoughts seem amicable on the surface, they are actually the seeds of life long servitude to well heeled mastersedit on 5-3-2014 by boohoo because: (no reason given)
IrishCream
Now I have read this reply and I can see a little better where you are coming from with your comments to my first post. Yes, it is very difficult to get into the best colleges, the Ivy League as such. Also, being a "Super Senior" is no picnic, my 18 year old is currently a Super Senior (due to his own lack of effort, but still). However I must revert to my original comments, if she wants to continue on her original education path and expect that support from her parents, then she best suck it up butter cup and go home to mommy and daddy and all their rules!
IroncladFT
Then there are folks like this chick. They expect others to carry them to the top, demand help because they were taught NOT to give 100%, instead to use others to their advantage. Then when no one helps, tells you to go F yourself that your legs aren't broke, you can climb yourself, they throw fits, look like fools, and invite karma with open arms, and then wonder why only very few people feel bad for them.
She can still go to school, she can still get her education...but noooooo she wants to do it on someone else's dime, she wants to live as cushy as possible, she wants others to sacrifice so she can live at a certain standard she doesn't deserve. MILLIONS of others struggled to pay and get through college on their own. They ate ramen noodles, worked jobs, and managed. Sounds to me like shes just a bit too spoiled, lazy, and is afraid of losing what she thinks is a CLASS in society.
Tough SHT chicka...get a job, shut up, go to school and as I said in another thread, welcome to the real world. Either have some pride and earn your keep or expect to be eaten by this thing called life.
boohoo
You are certainly entitled to your opinion and are free to do as you please, but this kind of thinking is nothing more than outdated, working class, poppycock. As has been proven many times over, such a philosophy will lead to nothing more than a life of servitude to the "owners of capital".
In the new economy “leisure” is required to gain requisite skills in certain industries. Two of the biggest companies in the world were founded on skills learned during “leisure time”:
As I noted above, it was “leisure time” that gave Bill his edge, not “boot straps” or “sweat of the brow” and in the same vein It was “leisure time” that gave Mark his edge, not “boot straps” or “sweat of the brow”. If they had worked part-time while pursuing their studies they would both be somebodies employees today.
Same goes for the executive leadership at Riot Games and pretty much every other currently hot venture capitalist backed company making their mark today. CEO’s of today, for better or worse, don’t start from the bottom or come from the production line. They come straight from their parents basement; and lately its been the ones who seemingly “sucked on the teet” the longest who seem to be getting the investor money needed to start their businesses.
edit on 5-3-2014 by boohoo because: (no reason given)