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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Is this mostly a DC/NYC thing? I wonder. In Chicago where I used to live the work ethic was...work your tail off from 9-5 but then go home and enjoy yourself. Hang out with family and friends. Are the kids in middle America doing 5-6 hours of homework a night plus all the other junk piled on? I have to assume they are but I just don't really know[/quote]

No, I grew up in the Chicago area, and this is absolutely a socioeconomic thing.  I went to school in the affluent North Shore suburbs, and the culture people are describing is exactly what is described at someplace like Langley.  Then when you get in the city proper, the competition to get people into gifted schools in starting in kindergarden is fierce.  The selective admissions high schools I think are every bit competitive with places like Stuyvesant and Bronx Sci, and people test prep like mad to get into them because they basically have to have perfect grades and test scores to get into them unless your parents have a low socioeconomic status, in which case you are probably an outlier if you make it that far anyway.  The private school scene is every bit as nuts as the DC private scene.  It is a big city thing, where there are concentrations of wealth and high achieving people.[/quote]

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