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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked this article (even though I'm not a conservative like David Brooks). He makes several insightful points.

In addition, this paragraph should resonate with DCUM community:

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Family life changed as parents tried to produce the sort of children who could get into selective colleges. Over time, America developed two entirely different approaches to parenting. Working-class parents still practice what the sociologist Annette Lareau, in her book Unequal Childhoods, called “natural growth” parenting. They let kids be kids, allowing them to wander and explore. College-educated parents, in contrast, practice “concerted cultivation,” ferrying their kids from one supervised skill-building, résumé-enhancing activity to another. It turns out that if you put parents in a highly competitive status race, they will go completely bonkers trying to hone their kids into little avatars of success.[/quote]

eh, kids at Ivies today were parented during covid. Get real, David Brooks. [/quote]

Please, that is a blip on the radar of their 18 year childhood. And don't think for a minute kids were not moving forward during COVID. I have a kid in college now (not an elite school), and COVID barely disrupted his life, and certainly not his sport or his education at all. It was weird times for sure, but it didn't stop the college prep process. Mostly he couldn't do his service work for about a year because he used to work with the elderly. If anything, for a lot of public school kids aiming for an ivy, it simply guaranteed a 4.0UW.[/quote]

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