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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. 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. [/quote]

Yes. I wrote the original quoted post here ("What Americans don't seem to get..."). I grew up in a very rich neighborhood (apparently last year was rated the most expensive neighborhood in BC's lower mainland, including Vancouver, in terms of house prices) and NEVER encountered the kinds of attitudes you see on DCUM. Same HHI's and SES, very different approach to education and life in general. The attitude is just different up north. [/quote]

I am very close friends with someone in Victoria and have spent much time there.  Victoria is a wonderful place - but please keep in mind that Victoria is an entirely different world than the DC Metro area.  It's not just because you are in Canada - it's because you are not in DC.  The relative concentrations of politicians (federal, not state/provincial), lobbyists, lawyers, international NGO's are quite different.  Not to mention total population or concentration of highly educated parents (the DC area has highest concentration of PH.D's in the US).     [/quote]

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