Mgt 311 Week 1 Personal Response Paper

1. Parents are a overwhelming reason why students from affluent families are increasing become a population that is mentally troubled. But is there someone to the idea of money in general that is to blame?

I prompt this question because I have had a theory of why students from rich families try to do so well in school rather than blaming strict parental control. I view childhood and adolescence as a phase in which a person becomes accustomed to a certain lifestyle — one with a nice kitchen, nice family vacations, a few bedrooms, granite countertops… etc. Asking a child from an affluent family, “Would you like to downgrade your lifestyle?” There answer will be no. Furthermore, I suspect that jealously and ‘FOMO’ are also triggers for teenagers, especially coming from social media. Me coming from a low-middle class high school, there was not much for students to post about besides food and random activities. In college, I have befriended people from diverse financial backgrounds, and it is easy to see how differently social media is generally used by disparate financial backgrounds.

2. What about the
Getting into a good school or getting a good job both require a tremendous amount of effort and luck. The thought that decades ago, it seemed difficult but not impossible to be admitted into Ivy League schools makes me wonder, “What if I had these grades applying decades ago?”. There is something about contemporary competitiveness I think that is prominent catalyst in parental pressure. Reading that there is a less than 20% chance of admittance for their child to any top school forces parents to raise their kids to be in the top 20% of students in the country, a feat that cannot be done passively. To some parents, having their child study for a final exam is more important for the big picture than not eating dinner together for one