<p>I go to high school in a city with (literally) 95% white residents, a median income of $100,000, among other things. For whatever reason, something to do with the town itself and the upbringing of my peers who commute from their mansions everyday, all of my peers (again, not really an exaggeration) are ill informed and intolerant republicans who only care about football and drinking because they have nothing to live up to since they have everything handed down to them.</p>
<p>One of my classmates totaled her 9 month old Lexus, and got a brand new one from daddy the very next day. </p>
<p>It's the norm for girls to wear $700 cocktail dresses to homecoming and carry mom's credit card wherever. The parking lot is full of new BMW's, Mercedes, Porches... </p>
<p>My parents are just as successful and I am just as fortunate but we live well below our means and in addition to being a minority in my beliefs, I was never raised on a trust fund and was taught the value of hard work and educational goals. </p>
<p>I make my own money and am pretty fed up with the attitude of my classmates, who I have a hard time tolerating because most of the girls are probably going to ASU for two years, major in business because they think they'll make a lot of money, realize they have to take finance and quit, live on dad's money until they meet their rich husbands. </p>
<p>I'm just... FRUSTRATED. I wish I went to school with like minded people who didn't think they had so many birth rights. Anyone else have similar gripes?</p>
<p>hahahaha… sounds like something out of the stepford wives! kind of funny, actually </p>
<p>ah i’m sure you’ll be able to find some like-minded souls in your school. you must be like one out of a thousand.</p>
<p>on the positive side: high school is kind of joke, and you’ll have an entirely new social circle in a few years. for now, just grin and bear it, comforted by the knowledge that these ‘entitled’ people are in the minority… at least from a larger perspective.</p>
<p>I’m not exaggerating at all. And it is TOTALLY STEPFORD WIVES! Wow. The moms are just like that. None of them work! We moved here from NYC in 99, I’m a senior now, but it’s still a culture shock sometimes… Values are just totally different. </p>
<p>If I’m not being bullied for being a liberal I’m being bullied for having strong opinions and doing things like debate team, editing the newspaper… since when was intelligence something we should make fun of? Uh? </p>
<p>It’s weird because it’s not like I live in Beverly Hills. There’s “socio economic diversity” but in the sense that there are kids who are mostly upper middle class, and then kids who are disgustingly wealthy. I live in the more modest homes and drive the family hand me down Subaru (social suicide) and still don’t feel like I fit in. Nor am I treated that way!</p>
<p>Look up Highlands Ranch, CO if you’re curious. It’s pretty bad. </p>
<p>Kids here are just so rude and think they’re entitled to everything. Not ALL kids are like that but it’s more than in the average hs. </p>
<p>I’m looking forward to making myself a success and coming to the 15 year reunion and can take satisfaction in seeing that most of the girls who teased me became trophy wives anyways, and the guys who thought they were the ish ended up selling insurance.</p>
<p>Continue being better than them by not letting their snobbishness get to you and never get frustrated with them. Their entitlement and money will not compensate for the void in their lives.</p>
<p>Yeah I live in a suburb of a little more than 120,000 people. Median income was $109,000 as of 2010 and the city is 77% white, 9% black, and 11% asian. The two counties that are in the city limits were ranked the fifth and 13th (respectively) most conservative counties in the country which is interesting because most people that live here are transplants from places like california… I know a couple kids that got Lamborghinis when they turned sixteen. Obviously they’re in the minority but you still have most kids driving new or close to new high end luxury cars. Also you have a ton of girls that really have no other aspiration than to have a rich husband. That’s what their mothers do so why shouldn’t they? Its actually kind of ridiculous. I mean I was at one of the shopping centers one time during school (doctors appointment obvi) and this is at like eleven a clock on a Tuesday morning. It was full of housewives shopping for new clothes and spending their husbands’ money or whatever the hell else you do when you don’t have a job or household responsibilities seeing as you pay someone else to do those things .</p>
<p>Seriously. I’m not saying that all moms here are trophy deadbeats who live off of their ex husbands income because of huge child support pay offs. You wonder what they’ll do after their kids turn 18? And even the trophy deadbeats do SOME things other than shopping around town in their velour sweatsuits and bedazzling the cheer uniforms. One in particular (former Mrs. Colorado) is a divorcee but works part time selling t-shirts for pageant girls with rhinestone crowns on them through her own website. </p>
<p>I just have no respect for those women. Maybe they do meaningful things at home that I don’t see, but it definitely doesn’t come out in their daughters when they act the way they do.</p>
<p>One time I made the mistake of making a joke about the Lexus girl and she actually tried to justify why she deserved two luxury cars before age 18 equivalent to a college education. Makes me mad that they take advantage of how privileged they are. If my parents were so willing to drop cash on me like that… probably wouldn’t have to worry about student loans. </p>
<p>It’s also irritating because when I work hard enough to buy an Audi A8 myself, I don’t want 16 year old teeny boppers racing theirs through my neighborhood. You don’t deserve a status symbol like that if you didn’t earn it.</p>
<p>See this list? [Best</a> Places to Live 2011 - Top 25: Biggest earners - from MONEY Magazine](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2011/top25s/financial/]Best”>Best Places to Live 2011 - Top 25: Biggest earners - from MONEY Magazine) I live right next to 8 and 9. We probably missed that top 25 list by a few thousand $. There is such a WASPy attitude in my town, it sucks. Kids drive their audis and mustangs to school all the time. One kid had a BMW, but he didn’t like the way is handled, so his parents bought him a mercedes. It sucks that I’m on the lower end of my town, my parents can’t afford to buy me a car. I get made fun of all the time for not having a car, it’s stupid. I would get a job but I don’t have the time. Everyone feels entitled, I can’t wait for college where people should hopefully feel less privileged.</p>
<p>New England, man. I live about 7 miles out from #18 coincidentally enough. Haha, WASPy. Had to urbandictionary that one. New but so relevant to my life… too bad. That’s exactly what happened to one of the girls at my school. Daughter of Mark Schlereth, former NFL player and current ESPN correspondent. Got a BMW, kind of the SUV style for her 16th and it wasn’t sporty enough so she got a new Mercedes the next year. </p>
<p>She lives in LA with her sister now who tried to do the soap opera thing for a while. This particular girl is trying to become a supermodel and is in the meantime living off dads money. Shocking. Her sister dates some guy from the Hills, I’m sure she’ll meet someone with a nice trust fund to match hers. </p>
<p>I feel you. Pretty unfair that you have to be treated like that. I have nice clothes and can afford to go out, I work 15 hrs a week as a waitress so I pay my own way. I was lucky enough to get the old family car to use until I graduate. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I’m glad I learned work ethic, honestly. </p>
<p>I think you’re right about college being better. It’ll weed out the people who don’t want to put in the effort and aren’t mature enough for college in general. Big culture shock.</p>
<p>I am SO thankful sometimes for being lower-middle class, going to a large public high school with a GREAT deal of diversity, and being racially diverse myself. I think it has opened me up to the world so much more. Although I find your predicament HIGHLY entertaining!</p>
<p>Inattentive and irresponsible parents definitely account for a lot of it… my parents are pretty liberal in what they let me do because they trust me but I know a lot of kids who have parties where their parents buy the alcohol and drink with them and their friends. What the hell? Like they can’t let go of their own highschool days. </p>
<p>Diversity is so important. I wish I went to a high school with more diversity, not because I think I’ve become intolerant but because I literally cannot stand how ignorant everyone else can be when it comes to cultural differences. I’m Jewish and they can’t even handle that. As the Jewish liberal I’m the outcast. How sad.</p>
<p>In top schools like the ivy league schools, a large portion of the student body is made up of rich private schoolers/legacy kids who have the same sense of entitlement so it’s not as attitudinally diverse as one may think.</p>
<p>Well, as intellectuals, I’m sure everyone else on CC can probably feel your pain. </p>
<p>But see, I come from a place where the opposite of what you describe is the norm. The city is basically dilapidated, the public (and even private) schools are not that great, and the unemployment and crime rates are extremely high. There are places where I would feel very unsafe walking at night. I wouldn’t know the median income, but I would guess it’s pretty low.</p>
<p>Naturally, I don’t really like it here and I’m looking froward to a college experience where I might find more like-minded folks, but you gotta take the good with the bad. The grass is always greener…</p>
<p>I live near #20 on that list and I see where your coming from, although my school is economically more diverse than Radnor. My parents could definitely spoil me to fit in with that crowd, but they don’t and make sure I have to work for my shtuff. It’s annoying at times but I know it’ll pay off later in life.</p>
<p>Hey, we live in Highlands Ranch! I have two girls in two different high schools. D1 drives a 2000 Honda Accord with a <em>gasp</em> stick shift because we feel she needs to know how to drive one. We made her pay some of her money towards it AND we still had to borrow money to buy it. No Lexus here!</p>
<p>Yes, the area has a stinky veneer of entitlement about it, but I always told my husband that we don’t know what these people’s balance sheets look like. D2 has a friend who’s family lived in the gated community part of town but couldn’t afford to buy food last December.</p>
<p>High school sucks. But it does pass and you will do fine. Just learn the right life lessons and move on. Resentment is pretty corrosive. Don’t hang on to it or it will end up affecting you more than them.</p>
<p>D1 is a senior and looking forward to getting away from so much conservatism next year in college. So you’re not the only one. Hang in there!</p>
<p>I live in one of CNN’s top five places to live (2011). Naturally, there are a lot of very wealthy people at my school. While their antics are sometimes pretty annoying, there is a good bit of diversity to balance it out.</p>
<p>My roommate from last year was basically right next to #3, and holds the very unrealistic belief that 600k/year is still “middle class”, or at least as he believes is there.</p>
<p>I had to comment on this, since I live in Littleton. I know exactly where you are coming from. I went to k-8 at a school on the border of cherry hills village, and it was the exact same attitude. My 13-year old classmates wore juicy couture tracksuits and shoes, and got a new set 6 months later when they grew out of it…so indulgent!!! And I was one of the “poorer ones”…I’m right smack dab middle class. When I look back it was the most annoying time of my life. It will get better when you leave for college though! It got better for me in high school, when I was finally free…</p>
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