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Ben orders daily room service while living in a five star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota is flown to Rome to avoid drama at school. Welcome to the inner circle of New York's wealthiest families. , where science is an obsession, wealth doesn't help ease status anxiety, and parents try almost anything to gain a competitive edge in the hamster wheel of college admissions. When Blythe Grossberg started out as a learning specialist and tutor, she had no idea what to expect in the luxury apartments on Fifth Avenue. Kids are expected to be as efficient and motivated as CEOs, starting their day with a 5am squash practice session. and end them with evening tutoring sessions. Meanwhile, their powerful parents will do whatever it takes to secure one of the few places in the Ivy League, no matter what the cost to them or their children. Through funny and powerful stories from the children she raises, Grossberg shows us the privileged world of America's wealthiest families and the systems that help them stay. up.
Atutor offers low grades to rich, meddlesome mother and father of the New York prep schoolers she calls “Gatsby’s youngsters.” Grossberg taught for years at an elite Manhattan prep faculty even as moonlighting as a coach for center and excessive schoolers who would possibly go back from a weekend “and document that they were delivered to Bono at a live performance and had long past skiing.” She recollects her alternately worthwhile and maddening experiences, targeted on college students with getting to know differences, in a ee-e book that “has factors of memoir.” She makes use of composite characters to reveal how the ultrarich work—or game—a gadget that favors households who can have the funds for area camp and “$800—in line with hour” SAT tutors. Lily’s mom needs that a faculty permit her daughter retake a check due to the fact the proctor miscalculated the allocated time with the aid of using one minute. Trevor’s father expects after-faculty coach Grossberg to realize whether or not his son makes use of his ADHD resorts at faculty due to the fact “I’m now no longer domestic sufficient to gather greater than center samples on my son.” Sophie’s mom plays “the prison card” so her daughter can redo a paper after her father is charged with unrelated economic missteps withinside the New York Times. Students be afflicted by the interference with the aid of using “litigious and combative” mother and father of Gatsby-like wealth: “The end result of all this meddling of their youngsters’s lives…is that many children acquire past their ability, in order that tutoring has to observe them to college.” Some youngsters address anxiety, depression, exhaustion, or White privilege (they resent having to look at the civil rights documentary Eyes at the Prize in class). Grossberg’s novelistic flourishes (“She pauses for a minute and licks her lips nervously”) may be distracting, however maximum of her memories ring actual and insightfully guide her vast factor that worry drives the parental excesses: “These mother and father, having done the apogee of achievement and wealth, have nowhere to move however down.” A sobering close-up of parental wealth and power—and the youngsters harm with the aid of using it—at tony Manhattan schools.
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