Jessica Tarlov
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Can't even tell you how many people I know that are like, well, we're not paying for it.
Right.
This is money that was set aside by grandparents.
And it's creating this false sense of financial security and ego for these kids who are walking around like they're all, you know, like too big for their britches.
So all for a meritocracy in this of smashing the system that allows schools to be $70,000 a year.
And school just doesn't feel like it should be for profit.
We're saying, yeah, your granddad founded X, Y, or Z thing, right?
I just I hate that, especially going down to preschools.
Or your grandparents came from or your great grandparents, this incredible immigrant class and was able to pass down this wealth so you could go to this school.
But what are you going to make of it?
Now you've just ruined everything for me, Scott.
Of course, people at the top, they're going to go to the Harvards and the Yales of the world.
But there are plenty of kids are going to go to just
average schools right colleges out of this and then i'm thinking you know you spent hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars for them to probably not have as good of a or as fun certainly or well-rounded experience while they were in school and they ended up at exactly the same place with no guarantee that they're going to have a better job when they're coming out of it
So all for a meritocracy in this of smashing the system that allows schools to be $70,000 a year.
And school just doesn't feel like it should be for profit.
I just I hate that, especially going down to preschools.
Well, now you've just ruined everything for me, Scott.
Thanks a lot, Scott.
You too.