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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In contrast, I lived in a working class area of Atlanta recently and almost every teen I knew had a retail type of job and many wanted to pick up a few extra hours here and there around the neighborhood to supplement income. I think the excuse in these upper middle parts of DC (and NJ) is always that the kids are SO high achieving and between getting straight As, captain of the sports teams, and other ECs, there is just no time. But the teens that I knew in ATL were no less high achieving -- lots of straight A kids there too but many were supplementing their incomes to save for college, cars etc. Chalk it up to wealth and helicopter parents who have never held the kid responsible for anything -- don’t know how they handle “real” work places. [/quote] I do not think those kids will grow up to do the lawn service or babysitting. They get "real" jobs, like doctor, lawyer, same as the parents. They just are not working class.[/quote]
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