Why do kids get so insanely overscheduled with schoolwork and extracurriculars? So that they can look better on college applications and get into the best school possible. Why do kids need to go to the best school possible? So that they can hopefully get a job that pays them well enough to survive in this ridiculous capitalist society, in which the cost of living steadily rises, employee benefits increasingly vanish, and wages don't keep up with inflation.
Their childhoods are being sacrificed in hopes that they can make it in adulthood.
I assure you the entirety of New Jersey does not smell like shit. There are smelly industrial areas. But they don't call us the Garden State for nothing! There's plenty of natural beauty and fresh air.
I like Aldi for staples like old-fashioned oats, cooking oil, and laundry detergent. But I can't do all my shopping there because their meat is awful and their produce is very hit-or-miss. Typically I buy what I can at Aldi and get the rest at Giant, and if I'm getting fish, I go to Wegmans.
Why do kids get so insanely overscheduled with schoolwork and extracurriculars? So that they can look better on college applications and get into the best school possible. Why do kids need to go to the best school possible? So that they can hopefully get a job that pays them well enough to survive in this ridiculous capitalist society, in which the cost of living steadily rises, employee benefits increasingly vanish, and wages don't keep up with inflation.
Their childhoods are being sacrificed in hopes that they can make it in adulthood.