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[quote=Anonymous]I lived and taught at a boarding school in England for a number of years.  We had some extremely coddled children, and the parents expected the teachers to continue the coddling.  For example, I had a few parents in different timezones who would insist once a week or so that they MUST video chat with me at a time that always after midnight for me, and there would be more than one of these each week.  One student never did homework and my department head insisted that teachers complete important exam work for her so that she could pass/graduate (this is illegal and academically dishonest and cheating, etc, but for a few kids who were just very, very special, admin expected faculty to offer these sevices).  Many students would regularly ignore and flout rules, and the level of drug use was like nothing I've ever seen.  Special students were never, ever expelled or referred to police for hard drugs and at least one occasion of grievous bodily harm on another student, plus one student who hit-and-run a pedestrian near school, but the headmaster spoke to police and she was never charged or even spoken to "because she's badly shaken and very sensitive."

The majority of students at the school were not like this, but there was a very visible minority who were.  They all went on to top universities, even the ones who would probably not have graduated if their parents were not super rich/oligarchs/minor aristocracy.

So I've concluded that these kinds of kids actually end up at the very top, running our world, to a degree.[/quote]

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