If you can’t afford to pay $25 for your daughter to go on a school’s field trip, maybe you should think about your life choices before you go asking for handouts.

Normally, giving someone 25 bucks so their 7-year-old daughter could go on her grade’s field trip is a no-brainer. Of course, we would have wanted to help a little girl feel included in her class and allow her to have fun with her friends at school. But every story has context, and once you find out the context in the story below, you might understand why this dad refused to help his son’s stepsister go on the trip.