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You are a real New Yorker. A genuine one.

I am a rube who came to Wall St because I was a math wiz.I crawl over a thousand miles of glass. But I made it because of merit...because I was smart.

I made a ton of money for my firm. And for myself.

But I will never be a real New Yorker.

Just an interloper.

But a smart one.

If you had gone to my country schools and university...you would have struggled and flunked.

Lucky for you, you were born in Manhattan.

I may be a born & bred New Yorker, who went to grammar school there; however, I went to boarding school for high school and there's NO WAY that I would have "struggled and flunked" if I had gone to the schools you went to. ;^)

Back when I was in school, it was no easy thing to get good grades and we covered FACTUAL, non-PC, subjects in full! And I guess that you've never heard of the N.Y. State Regents exams.LOL

Yes, the Regents have been watered down to a disgraceful extent, now; however, when my mother was in school, if you did well on the yearly Regents...the Ivies and other colleges and universities would take you without you having to take the SATs, or ACTs! They were harder/far more difficult than any tests...ANYWHERE...ever, back then and that includes the education that the most elite posh boarding schools were giving!

Why do you imagine that I would have flunked out of the schools you went to?

How much do you know about where I went to school?:-)

And just how much do you know about what private or elite boarding schools taught back then? ;^)

Here's some funny info re what was being taught through 3 generations...even in NYC public school...

When my grandparents were in school, foreign languages ( at the high school level of the 1950s..which are not the same now ) was taught in grammar schools. They had for real algebra and geometry in the 7th & eight grades, respectively. By the time I was in those grades, that was no longer true.

When my mother was in high school, micro and macro economics was taught, as part of the curriculum and NOT as anything "special". That wasn't even being taught in the posh boarding schools, private day schools, nor public schools of any kind, by my time; as "special" class or otherwise. And not just in NYC, but in THE most elite private day schools in Chicago, it wasn't available in the 1980s either.

Being a REAL New Yorker is also a state of mind and you DO have a lot of it, so you need to rethink some. LOL