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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hilarious how sanctimonious phonies populate this forum — e.g. every teen is a good human being! Meanwhile the school and real estate forums are all about obsessively studying free lunch, rental and test rates to avoid lower class schools and neighborhoods and maximizing your real estate investment. Too funny.[/quote]

Seriously. Love how the DCUM -- we are barely scraping by as lower middle class at 300k crowd is suddenly jumping all over OP because she wants her kids to go to college, have a $$$ profession etc. You know all of you are doing what you can to live in the "right' districts -- i.e. white/Asian with a huge % going to college, low teen pregnancy, low school lunch -- and get your kids into the right colleges so they'll launch into ibanking, law, med, tech etc. But how dare OP criticize BIL/SIL for letting their kids hang out with the pregnant losers who'll be working retail jobs!?

OP -- are they small town people? Bc this mentality totally exists in small towns. There are SO many kids dropping out, pregnant at 16, doing drugs, barely making the grades in school to where it's known that their future will consist of retail or factories. So then the regular families who have kids who are B or C students, who go to school, don't make trouble and are just gaming all the time at home -- they AND THE KIDS start to think -- OMG we really have our lives together, such great kids, they'll do great in life. Reality is that was considered fine in 1970, but it certainly isn't competitive in 2019. Often the parents realize it when the kid goes to the middling local u and then it becomes abundantly clear as they graduate in 6 yrs hopping from one major to the next that this is a kid destined for a paper pushing office job, and couldn't become a dr. or lawyer even if he wanted it bc he's so far behind what is considered good in the normal world.

Sorry I -- and I suspect OP -- want more for our kids. I want drs., lawyers, or bankers with a few ivy degrees. And I'm Asian so it's perfectly acceptable to let these expectations be known in our homes and our kids do work up to those expectations.[/quote]

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