In My Day, Upper-Middle-Class Kids Did Well Enough In School To Not Have To Cheat

Leave it to the Inquirer to be able to turn a a possible cheating scandal at Cherry Hill High East into a trend piece.

Yes, the trend piece today comes on the revelations/rumors that several high-profile students were involved in said cheating scandal, and is a nice way to advance the story without having to print a bunch of no comments. You see, upper-middle class kids are, like, the only one nobody really understands. (They’re the ones who are not rich enough to do coke but too rich to be unconcerned with grades. They have to get into a good college so they can get coke from the rich kids.)

According to the Inquirer, people take grades seriously, nobody gets anything lower than a B and kids nowadays ride Segways or their butler to school. And the gossip spreads quickly:

“We’re in this crazy race,” Amanda Whitbred said Thursday. “Gossip started halfway through junior year about who the valedictorian would be. It’s like, ‘Did you hear Rachel got a B in gym? That could bring down her GPA.’

All across the suburbs today, mothers of girls named Rachel are grilling their daughters over a possible bad grade in gym they don’t know about.

Amid privilege, crushing pressure to excel [Inquirer]

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