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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny thing --- my kids have been watching Leave it to Beaver on Netflix and in one of the episodes, I heard Ward and June lamenting that competitiveness started before high school to get into college and do well in sports.

Kind of interesting that we think of this is some new issue when it was being discussed on a tv show set in the late 50's/early 60's/[/quote]
The word isn't new, but how it plays out certainly reaches new heights every year. Ask any seasoned teacher.[/quote]

It depends on where you went to HS.  There have always been pockets of competitiveness- there are just more now.  I went to HS in metro Boston and it was as competitive as my DC's here in McLean, if not more so.  We had 23 NMF  and 10% went Ivy- two dozen to Harvard alone out of a class of 625 (yes, many were children of professors, but they still had to get in).  The top 20% took as many AP classes as they could.    Class of 1982. [/quote]

I grew up in a close-in northern NJ suburb of Manhattan & graduated from high school in the mid-90s. The competition, stress & workload in high school (& even middle school) was insane. I've vowed to put my own kids' mental health first & to do what I can to discourage the rat race mentality early on.[/quote]

Do you think being in the rat race helped those people achieve whatever goals they set (thus the reason for the stress and competition?)[/quote]

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