My 13-year old son had started at one of the most prestigious private schools in the nation – an honor that we were paying $20,000 a year for and at a school that had 100 applications for each spot! When he came home the second month with a horrified look on his face, telling me [...]
The American Dream seems in recent times to be seen as possessions people have like two cars, a house with white picket fence etc., but it is really an idea that everyone should have equal opportunities in life and everyone should be treated equally.
So in that sense the American Dream is still alive and still [...]
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