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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest difference I have noticed is that upper middle class people are obsessed with providing what they perceive to be the best for their kids...from organic food to limiting screen time, to Suzuki lessons at age 4, to Montessori preschool, to private and/or the best public schools in high SES locations.  They are concerned with their kids going to the best fit/most competitive college than can go to irregardless of cost.  They also fret about saving in 529s and what corners they can cut so that they can make private high school an option.  They consider international travel to be an important, culturally enriching experience that children should have.  They fret over whether or not it is damaging to the psyche for their kid to grow up without a yard, or whether it is justifiable to live in a condo so they can ride the metro to preschool and walk to the farmer's market.  They tend to be relentless helicopter parents.

Lower middle class tend to be more laid back about junk food, less concerned about THE BEST schools, and more about living someplace that fits the needs and budget and has the right fit for their families.  They tend to not freak out about having the TV on all the time and about too much Dora time. They don't think to scour Greatschools.com to figure out all the options they have and whether nor not the greatschools rating is a 9 or a 10, and just move into a nice, middle class neighborhood and sent their kids to the most convenient neighborhood school.  They encourage education, but going in state to get in state tuition, rather than freaking out about getting into ivies or if their kid isn't competitive enough to get into ivies "the best fit school."  They frequently don't save in 529s, either because they paid for college and they expect their kids to as well with loans, or because they are just making enough to get by, and there isn't any left over to save for college.  Sometimes it is taken as a point of pride that their kids have "skin in the game" and not everything "handed to them."  The same is said for weddings and other life expenses that are not within their budget--not helping them financially is a mark of developing self-sufficiency.[/quote]

You are wrong. My boss went to Bullis and tells everyone how expensive the school was, and that he went there. But he attended the state university. Maybe the parents just did not want to pay for an ivy, but he could have gotten to the state university from a public school as well

I know another girl with a very rich father. A divorce meant he did not need to pay for her college. [/quote]

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