<p>Why does gym cost $500 anyway? I don’t get it.</p>
<p>Seriously $500?! Maybe is is my public school self speaking, but that’s crazy! I definatly think that’s wayyyy to much to pay for an AP! An ACTUAL college course could quite possibly cost less and not even all colleges accept AP! I took summer gym all 3 years for I think …$25 per summer? </p>
<p>I just go to an average public high school. We aren’t the most privileged school I the state, but we aren’t poor. So of course there are some very spoiled kids. Several guys drive very nice cars and we have clubs such as “travel club” and “snowboarding club” that cost several hundred dollars to join, and then possibly thousands more depending on what trips you want to go on. And all those expensive clubs have like 75+ members… </p>
<p>One of my friends is literally the poster child of “spoiled rich kid” though. He lives in a literal mansion on the lake with his own beach, jet skis, boat, etc. Drives a Mercedes (“but its not thaaaatt nice” -him). And often flys out to New York for fashion shows and misses school to do so (his dad is in the fashion industry). He came from an expensive private school (possibly got kicked out? i never asked…) and dresses in the latest fashion despite everyone else at our school being content in sweats. And to top it all off he smokes a ton of weed. Yep, rich kid stoner at its finest.</p>
<p>
I wasn’t implying that $500 isn’t a lot of money (it is for most people). I just think its wrong to claim someone is spoiled because their parents are willing to pay $500 for summer school so they can take an extra AP during the school year. That just makes absolutely no sense. If someone has the money, there is nothing wrong with spending it towards a summer school class.</p>
<p>Complaining about not getting the newest iPad when you already have an iPad that’s only a year old = spoiled</p>
<p>Complaining because your parents won’t buy you a new sports car, only a used sports car = spoiled</p>
<p>Throwing a tantrum because your parents got you an 16GB iPhone instead of a 32GB iPhone = spoiled</p>
<p>Paying $500 for a summer school gym class so you can take another AP class during the school year =/= spoiled (not even slightly…)</p>
<p>
At my school, all the summer school courses are $500. They are overpriced imo, but I guess they need to pay for facilities, teachers, materials, etc. Summer school used to be free, but due to budget cuts they now charge $500. Probably a similar situation at the OP’s school, but idk for sure.</p>
<p>
wont do it anymore i promise…</p>
<p>Oh my gooooddd, a ton. I go to a all-girl’s private school and some of the people here are the worst species of humans you can ever find (gossipy, superificial, two-faced, etc)</p>
<p>Yeah I live in the suburbs and tons of kids have Beats headphones, almost everyone has a smartphone, and tons of people have designer clothes. We’re pretty spoiled. It’s bad.</p>
<p>I live in one of the richest areas in the entire country, if not THE richest area. So yes, I have met a ton of spoiled kids. It isn’t uncommon to meet kids with private jets or homes in Paris. I consider myself spoiled, but I make a conscious effort not to take advantage of it, though it is difficult if you were raised on the basis of being spoiled.</p>
<p>I do not believe that being rich makes you happy, though. I believe that not wanting anything else makes you happy.</p>
<p>“I believe that not wanting anything else makes you happy.”</p>
<p>Eh, most people find happiness in striving.</p>
<p>I live in…a lower middle-class area, I think. Small town in which the average income is a little over $30,000. Most kids have jobs at fast food places and such. School’s always pushing for levies. Programs getting cut. The library’s not open on weekends anymore. But I think most people have what they need to live, at least.</p>
<p>When I was in 7th grade, there was this senior who wore suits every day and full length furs in the winter, carried his books in a Louis Vuitton GM something, and drove a fabulous red sports car, don’t remember the brand. As I was coming fresh out of elementary school where the younger kids were still running around in chocolate pudding-stained Osh Kosh B’Gosh, he blew my mind.</p>
<p>Ostentation, though usually not to this degree, was common at my school. I remember in some class discussions about it, we realized that our friends at more uniformly upperclass private schools didn’t dress as well as the upperclass kids at our economically diverse public school. I guess we felt like we needed to demonstrate our difference.</p>
<p>I can aslo confess to seeming like the spoiled kid at times. My aunt indulged age 6 me with a $300 skirt suit; I often wore it to class.</p>
<p>“there was this senior who wore suits every day and full length furs in the winter”</p>
<p>Oh my God, how did he not get made fun of?</p>
<p>I live in an upper-middle class area as well, but as one of the few state schools we aren’t necessarily known as posh.
I know a lot of people are getting paid for grades, one even in horses. If she gets 6 A<em>s and the rest As, she gets one more horse, 8A</em>s means 2 horses.
This particular girl doesn’t believe in tipping people at all and has a Mulberry school bag.</p>
<p>Millancad, as a freshman, there was a guy at my school just like that! He was foreign too and lived in his own upscale apartment when his parents moved back to their home country. He did the same thing with 3 piece designer suits and fur coats in the winter, and carried his iPad everywhere (this was before everyone had one). Everyone was just completely in awe of him (I got to a public school) even the teachers could help but stare and admire him when he walked by! I remember a girl on my team’s friend dated him for a while, and for her birthday she got a Prada purse and diamond earrings from him! He was just straight fabulous.</p>