Entitled student bodies...

oliviabartel
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:56:07 +0000

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.

One of my classmates totaled her 9 month old Lexus, and got a brand new one from daddy the very next day.

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…

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.

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.

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?