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What Americans don't seem to get is that you can't all grow up to be lawyers and doctors. You over work your children and deny them their childhood, instead scheduling every free second with "enrichment" activities. And then you come post here when little Timmy, who really just wants to be a garbage man when he grows up, doesn't get into AAP or IB or whatever else. Cut your kids some slack. 
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We (Americans) don't actually all do this. Only the part of America with a lot of secondary education and an upper-middle-class income. Which happens to be the part of America that is over-represented on DCUM overall and enormously over-represented on DCUM's private school forum. It would be a mistake to think that DCUM is representative of real-life America.[/quote]

I think the reality is though that a forum in Canada with a population of post secondary education and upper middle class incomes would be very different than DCUM. There still wouldn't be the same pressures or expectations. There is a different philosophy towards life, balance and education in Canada that shapes how even the educated, richer people think and act. It is a different educational culture. [b]The people who are more like typical DCUMers are the elite rich socialites in Canada - they don't live or interact with the rest of the population. They go to private schools and live a high society life, interacting mostly with each other. [/b][/quote]

What makes you think that the typical DCUMers -- especially the typical DCUMers on the private school forum! -- interact with the rest of the population in the US? They definitely don't interact with me (as far as I know). I only hang out here because it's edifying to read about the problems of people who have to scrape by on $500,000 a year. [/quote]

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