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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish my kid was coddled more, not really, but that is so false. There may be some plush privates that do that but it’s not the Ivies. Most get humbled real quick and the expectations are very high. There is no hand holding.[/quote]

I believe what they mean by coddled is the Ivies do not provide the full gamut of a real word education.  For instance, you don’t have to be proactive to get your classes.  If you’re struggling, they practically give your own personal tutor.  You don’t get that in publics, at least not to that extent.  You have to be responsible and get your classes early or they’ll run out of seats.   If you’re struggling, they do have resources to help you but you have to seek out.  And when you do, you might have to wait a couple hours for your turn (this is most common in lower division introductory courses.  Upper division is much more intimate).  So public school education is more relatable to the real world. No one’s gonna give you a job out there, you have to seek it out.  If you’re struggling at your job, you’re pretty much on your own to figure it out.  An IT person once said he could always tell what school someone went to.  He said the private school people would call me to fix stuff that only took a reboot. [/quote]
+1 I grew up in a lower income, immigrant home, and went to big no name state u.  I had to be scrappy.  My kids have grown up in an UMC home with public schools that try to coddle them more.  They need more hand holding.  That's not to say that I want my kids to grow up  like I did because it was tough and stressful, and not fun.  But, at the least, it made me scrappy.  I was also a latchkey kid.

But, I have told my kids what the PP wrote above -- the world is not going to coddle you.  Your manager is not going to coddle you.  You have to figure things out on your own, and advocate for yourself.  You will probably have to do the grunt, low level not fun work when you first start working.  [/quote]

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