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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all nuts, And raising such spoiled kids! Unbelievable! I am being serious. Where do you all com from? there is no way my kids are going to grow up with such high standards and entitlement. School comes first, family time comes second, and if you really want extra, you'll have to earn it. I didn't grow up in the states, and all this stress and expectations sound over the top. I am glad I don't have the need to keep up with anybody. [/quote]

People rationalizing spending $20K a year per kid could keep their kid home to volunteer instead of thousands on camps.  You know, maybe help out families that don't even make 20K total in a year.    [/quote]
So I guess your kid is never taking a music lesson, a skating lesson or a sport that isn't connected to school.

I also am guessing your kid comes with a special ability to teleport themselves into places without needing someone to drive them.

I am so guessing your kid comes with a special degree of tolerance to boredom to be stuck at home all summer.

Finally, I am guessing that you come from an independently wealthy family to not be concerned about your own retirement, healthcare or income if you stay at home during summer so your kids don't need camps.

That's quite a recipe for success you have!

I also didn't grow up in the States but the reason we were able to make it to the upper middle class here is the legacy of academic achievement and the value of cultural enrichment hammered into us by parents who weren't rich but devoted themselves to concerted cultivation (luckily, in my home country most of it came free in my time). If I was a kid who stuck just with school back home, I would have been a nobody here, still living in a 2-bedroom apartment. No thank you.  You chose to come to the country where raising children in an academically enriching way is expensive and stressful.  Deal.  Or don't deal if you can't, but pretending you are somehow more virtuous than others who do is ridiculous on its face. [/quote]

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