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Is it really as bad as you say? There is a type of parent who is constantly worried about their kids.

They're worried that the teacher isn't giving their daughter enough attention.

They're worried that their son is falling behind. They fight and claw for every advantage

and resist every possible disadvantage with equal ferocity. More than anything, they want their kids to succeed,

and they will not let anything get in the way of that. Isn't it interesting, though, that these

paranoid, hypervigilant, aggressive parents never seem to be the folks who've had to spend

time worrying about the winds of systemic injustice blowing in their

direction, nor do they tend to be the people living paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth.

No, one of the things we never seem to mention about snowplow parents and helicopter moms and

hockey dads is that they all somehow can afford the time to do and say these things that have

the rest of us shaking our heads. Now, college admissions are definitely unfair. They are ruthlessly

competitive. Lots of kids suffer because of them. But who fought the hardest to beat that system

in the college admissions scandal? It wasn't a band of fed up parents from

inner city schools fighting for theirs. It was a bunch of preposterously rich parents with mediocre kids

who, for most of their life, had barely done anything with their considerable potential.

The Karen who is screaming at the PTA meeting, the father bullying his son's teacher to get a

grade changed, the mob of moms and dads descending upon the headmaster at their kids' expensive

private school, why is it that the angriest parents are actually the ones for whom the system

isn't just working the best, but for whom it is specifically

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