[quote=AN][quote=SK in CV]Just for some more words of encouragement, both of my kids graduated from UC (different campuses). All of the UC campuses are in the top 20 most competitive public universities in the country. Neither one of them ever felt any competition from other students. This isn’t anything I (or my dear ex wife) deserve any particular credit for, other than making sure their mindset was to challenge and compete only with themselves. There’s plenty of other crap to stress kids out. Competing with their classmates doesn’t have to be one of them.[/quote]To some, who buy in CV specifically for the school (tiger parents or not), only to have their kids to only go to the top 20 public university, would make them feel like they failed or the school failed or they wasted a bunch of money for nothing. Now, if their kids end up going to the top 5 or top 10 university (private and public), then they might feel like it’s worth the money.[/quote]
Yeah, but do you blame us? Look at all we had to give up….Real leather versus Pleather in our cars, TRACT homes with dissolvable walls, no AC and no front and back yard…. No furniture in our home except for the $99 Ikea special…
Not like we’re living a luxurious life like some of more privileged, affluent constituents in wealthier Mira Mesa… I mean, most of us workaholics slave away and return to the Slums in Carmel Valley after working on that information super-railroad, brick by brick…For shame.
