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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Exactly. Most kids in the world don’t think this way, OP. It’s because you chose the expensive private school or chose the house in the expensive neighborhood so they could go to the rich public school. They are well off but they are, ironically, naive and sheltered.[/quote] This is not true, IME. Kids in my daughters' AAP center routinely hyperventilated if they didn't do well on texts because it would prevent them from getting into Harvard. This is not a rich school - some rich kids, but also many first generation Americans. The message filters down from parents and older siblings and turns kids into stress cases. It's fundamentally rooted in income inequality and fear that there is not enough pie to go around. There isn't, but the answer isn't necessarily to go to an Ivy at whatever financial and mental cost. Also, kids need to get the message that there are many ways to "succeed," not just the narrow ones we see here. [/quote]
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