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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The time and energy that some of you have to devote to the absolute *minutiae* of your kids’ HS, and the minute theoretical impact that this thing or that may have on their college admissions process—and implicitly, their lives and worth as human beings?—is at once astounding, sad, and batsh&t insane.

Tell your kid you work hard, try new stuff, be kind. Eat dinner with them sometimes. The rest will take care of itself. [/quote]

Yours is a white privilege argument. Not everyone has the accumulated generational wealth and extended family where a degree less of "success" or "wealth" can be mitigated. Not everyone can putz along in high school and college and gain easy entree in the professional fields that their parent, grandparent, or family friend are entrenched in. Not everyone has the comfort in knowing that they qualify for closer to 100% of the available seats at a given school/firm but other less desirables are gatekept by history or quotas and must fight with each other over a number of seats that is much fewer than 100%. White kids are allowed to mess up many times and call it growth through experience; others may not even get a second chance. How easy it is to gaslight others when you think you're punching down.[/quote]

If you're speaking as a non-wealthy POC, fine. If you're not ...  :roll:  [/quote]

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