Yeah the rewards of hard work and delayed gratification are becoming more and more marginal as time goes on, but right now it’s still worth it to excel and hopefully that stays true for a while.

GP's point is it's worth it to excel, but having more people excel is worth even more. Your wife doesn't understand this.

I understand that, but we can't change the fact that our society doesn't seem to. So we look on the bright side: at least we have the privilege to ensure our kids can still excel.

If this nonsense comes to our school district, even if we send our kids to private, I'd vote against it to help public school kids excel.