[lovelyivy84]

Originally Posted by Sugar08

I totally understand what you're saying. Same here... and both of my parents are in education, so they would be the first to come down on me if I ever screwed up (which of course, I never did ), and then deliver me to the principal.

I think it's really a sense of privilege and entitlement that some parents pass onto their kids. I don't think most parents are this way, though.

It all stems from competition though- in high school there was a girl who STOLE SOMEONE ELSE'S BOOKS before a test so that she would get a higher grade. She may not have had friends, but she got into Harvard....

How about people with notes from their psychiatrists saying they had ADD so they could take the SAT untimed? I've seen parents sending admissions officials gifts- expensive gifts- to facilitate their kids getting into a top school. A PRE-SCHOOL. Or how about parents outright buying their kids a place in the ivies?

Unethical. All about getting their kid into the right schools. Not uncommon, not new. I think it's an attitude that has been accepted and has trickled down- parents as a group want kids to get good grades whether the little darlings deserve them or not, tricking their way into an A if that's what it takes.