I remember hearing the Head of Product at my old company talk about the private schools he was looking at for his 5 year old. He expressed excitement that one of them teaches their 5 year olds how to do TED Talks. The CTO of that company spoke half-jokingly about how he wanted his son to be the “first Governor of Mars”.
In November 2014, the CDC conducted similar research in Fairfax, Va., and found “multiple risk factors,” including high expectations for students, parental pressure on students for success and parental denial of mental health issues among their children. It found that 72 percent of youth suicides exhibited mental health problems.
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“The evidence all points to one cause underlying the different disturbances documented: pressure for high-octane achievement,” Luthar wrote. “The children of affluent parents expect to excel at school and in multiple extracurriculars and also in their social lives. … It plays out in crippling anxiety and depression, about anticipated or perceived achievement ‘failures.'”
Rich people are sick, fucked up psychos who should be locked up for many reasons, but especially de facto child abuse. They should have their children taken away from them and placed into a high functioning public social care and education system. I’m sorry folks, I don’t make the rules.
I remember hearing the Head of Product at my old company talk about the private schools he was looking at for his 5 year old. He expressed excitement that one of them teaches their 5 year olds how to do TED Talks. The CTO of that company spoke half-jokingly about how he wanted his son to be the “first Governor of Mars”.
I’m sure this kind of thing has no bearing on Palo Alto having a teen suicide rate five times the national average:
Rich people are sick, fucked up psychos who should be locked up for many reasons, but especially de facto child abuse. They should have their children taken away from them and placed into a high functioning public social care and education system. I’m sorry folks, I don’t make the rules.