LePetomane wrote:Randygmn wrote:My daughter goes to private school there where her k-12 school costs $50K per year. After 9 years, they offered my daughter a scholarship for her final 4 years of high school. Do the math on that.
Big deal. Coffee shops and hamburger joints are staffed with those types. Plenty of them are also living in their parents basement.
And I am very familiar with NYC and their politics having lived there.
Lol. I wasn't bragging. I've lived in NYC for 30 years. My wife is originally from Minneapolis and I've been coming here for the last 20+ years with her. It's only been a few years now since I changed my residency. If you lived here then you know that liberals here have taken their mental illness to a whole new level. Especially when it comes to "education". You'd be shocked to know what goes on behind close doors. I refuse to allow my daughter to become victim to their partisan zealotry.
And it's true what you said that a good education doesn't guarantee anything. My wife and I have done everything we could to give her better opportunities than we had. But she earned her high school scholarship by being at the top of her class, which has opened some real doors for her. As a freshman (14 years old), she was offered and accepted a medical internship, through the school, on a long term basis (most internships are summer programs), but this is throughout the school year for all 4 years of high school. She was invited this last spring to tour the campus and facilities at Harvard.
There are plenty of kids in her school, as well as schools like Blake and Breck, where the kids don't want to be there, but because that's where their parents put them, they go. Those are the kids that wind up in their parents basement in their 20's.