How can people like teachers tell that you're poor just by looking at you or etc...?

Question

is there anyway to tell?

or can they look up your info and tell?

Answer 1

They can tell by the clothes you have on; if they are cheap brands, no name, old, if you have a cheap watch, or no accessaries like fancy cell phone that takes pictures and has a computer in it, cheap shoes, etc. There wouldn't be any info to look up that says how much money you have. They can see if you bring a bag lunch, always have lunch money, or go to a restaurant for lunch; what kind of car you come to school in, or if you have your own car.

Answer 2

Dirty, ill fitting clothes, greasy hair with a bad haircut, smelly.

Answer 3

Judging someone solely based upon appearance is ridiculous and especially so for a teacher..who might I add is not exactly hauling in top pay. Lastly, someone else was ignorant enough to state that if you have on faded clothes etc then you must be poor...please do not listen to that. There are millionaires in this world who wear faded clothing and there are truly some poor people that wear the best of everything.

Answer 4

well, they definetely can't tell by your clothes, because my mom has worked with rich kids and they where clothes just like anybody else. Unless they are going some place real nice. They can probably tell by your school emergency card, where it has your address. Or also if you get free lunch at some public schools. So hope this helped =)

Answer 5

I don't know about where you are from, but schools here do not have that kind of "information" on you, such as parents income. A teacher might be able to tell by the neighbourhood you live in, your clothing, your lunches, if you have money for school trips, special lunches etc.

Answer 6

The school most likely has info considering you can't tell a book by it's cover:)

Answer 7

If you're wearing a shirt that has faded out colors or ripped pants or messy hair I think you can tell  you can't afford to buy/wash your clothes

Answer 8

Easy. Dress a little to hip and look like you are trying to hard to fit in. Grades, speech and the way you stand.

Most teachers don't need to look up things as they have no reason to. It as like many people and kids I have known in life. The ones who really apply themselves in school and have nothing are the ones who excel later in life. Once successful they remember what it means to have nothing and that goes a long way..... you appreciate what you have at every level.

All of the popular people whose parents spent gobs of money on them when I was in school? I now later in life make ten times more than they could ever make. I am no genius but what I learned was to plug along and be nice to people.

Answer 9

They have your info and it will tell to some extent, but unfortunately, some people, not necessarily teachers, tend to judge others by the way they dress, then make assumptions about their financial status. Not only is this wrong, but quite often the assumption itself is so far from correct that it's hilarious.

Answer 10

well mostly the school will have a record of of the child with age parents parents income etc. so by looking at someone will not tell if they're poor but if looked up in their records and files then yes.

Answer 11

I don't know, when I was in school people used to think I was poor, they thought I was a trailer child and all that but I wasn't, I just didn't care how I looked, lol. Should never judge a book by it's cover.

Answer 12

usually it's your clothes or your grades, the way you write, the food you bring, the ppl you hang with, and your attitude,

alot of times when the teacher says who has a computer at home and you don't raise your hand that kinda pulls some of it together and like when your parents don't sign something like a report card or agenda they figure that either there parents don't know they have to sign or they don't care or they don't have a pen.

sorry jk about the pen

hope i helped :)

Answer 13

im sure there is some kind of list that might not say your income but atleast your parents education level and judging by that they might assume. sometimes lower class people look dirty! lol people will be mad when they read that