If You're not cheating than you're not trying hard enough

While reading this article, it became clear to me that the parent aspect in high school education and even middle school and elementary school is huge. It seemed as though if you are not spending money on tutors, application centers, and day care's, then you will never have a shot at succeeding. Parents are placing so much pressure on their children and due to this are giving them these expensive advantages to exceed, that it seems like it is a steroid in the academic uneven playing field.

In particular I had a friend in high school whose parents only cared about his grades. the kid had over 5 run-ins with the law and his parents would do anything to pay for a lawyer and get him out of trouble. He was tutored in three of his five subjects ever since middle school, took a class over the summer to catch up his Spanish, and had a hired agency fill out his college applications: just to succeed in school. The problem that I saw in this was that the child will not be able to survive in the next level in his life without his expensive help. Kids should get by by themselves.