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ITA. College is not for everybody, nor is a white collar job.[/quote]

Yes, but the point is that the OP is remembering it as "Everybody got a good education and got along." That memory may not be accurate.[/quote]

Right, and OP is also saying that in her bucolic days growing up in a college town, parents didn't "do advocacy" at the schools or worry about academics.  That might be true - I don't know.  But I'm not sure the recollections of a child are necessarily accurate.  I'm sure there were people worried about academics, but those people were unlikely to be the highly educated white professionals that OP's parents hung out with, since they had some assurance that the middle class kids of college professors were going to land on their feet.  [/quote]

Yes, but my point is that I AM one of the highly educated professionals, and I don't want to have to worry!  Just like my parents did not worry :)  If I do have extra worry, time, and advocacy acumen to spare, I would actually prefer that it be spent on making the world a better place, not yogurt. [/quote]

So...don't advocate.  I also think the yogurt thing has become a straw man here for what is seen as "hippie" or "bougie" advocacy.  But I'm the PP who pointed out that the same parents who raised the yogurt issue were the ones who rallied parents and kids to come shovel the school blacktop so the kids could have outdoor recess as soon as school was back in session after the snowstorm.  There were fresh muffins, and coffee/tea, and it was actually a lot like the "neighborhood barbeques" that OP says she wants.

They are also the same parents who recently won an online contest to get the school a butterfly garden.  I'm glad those parents are involved.  My kids benefited from outdoor recess after the snowstorm, and will benefit from the beautiful school garden.  I'm confident that OP's childhood school had parents who got involved in similar ways.

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