Upper-middle-class parents these days feel that the stakes are really high. They hear about the collapse of the middle class and the bifurcation of the economy, and they imagine that there is a narrow path their children can follow to avoid the worst outcomes.

That is, you need not be greedy or have absurdly high ambitions for your children to worry ceaselessly about their academic success. Plenty of parents worry that if their child doesn’t get into Princeton or Stanford, they will end up unmarried, unemployed, and trained only in a job that will soon be done by robots.

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