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All the kids who had the parents holding their nose to the grindstone didn’t end up faring any better than the kids ditching free period to smoke weed in the wo
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
All the kids who had the parents holding their nose to the grindstone didn’t end up faring any better than the kids ditching free period to smoke weed in the woods, at least among my generation of peers. Those kids were certainly more stressed though. No point in paying for expensive colleges either, in state at your flagship will educate you as well as any ivy for undergrad.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI’ve never been convinced that ivy education is really better, but I’m quite convinced that it is much higher status. If your children are extensions of your status, then it certainly makes sense to push them in that direction, but I’d also say that some children will need their noses held to the grindstone to do well enough to be accepted into a flagship state school anyway.