What's worse - my worst-case or those kids you mention who didn't make it? I fully agree with you that the country is brutal to the uneducated, forced as they a

What's worse - my worst-case or those kids you mention who didn't make it? I fully agree with you that the country is brutal to the uneducated, forced as they are into low status (and yet often surprisingly socially important) jobs which provide marginal incomes. I'm not willing to use "Shame, guilt, social pressure, and beatings if necessary" (as a sibling commenter of mine suggested) on a child to enforce this system in which we reside. Are you? There was actually a recent article on this subject in The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/09/do-kids-need-ambition.html https://www.thecut.com/2023/09/do-kids-need-ambition.html The author's son seems to already be experiencing the existential dread of this system in kindergarten. Meanwhile rates of teenage depression and suicide increase while life expectancy in the US decreases. I'll never understand this place.