20 Terrible Things Every Private School Kid Went Through

17. Suffering Ridiculously High Expectations

It might sound like the stuff of dreams: a top class education followed by a cushy job. Yet high school is a pressure cooker at the best of times, sold to you as your one chance to make something of your life. Fail and you€™ll be sweeping the streets until you die poor and lonely in a trailer park.

The pressure is even worse for private school kids who not only have to compete with their peers but, as early as pre-pubescence, prove themselves capable of being billionaire oil barons.

 
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