It’s generally frowned upon to laugh at posters in the other forums, right? So I’ll do it here instead:
There are several head shaking comments made by the OP in that thread.
Umm, for the past few years my sister in law let me use her ID and password to access a nearby Xfinity wi fi hotspot. That hotspot finally disappeared a few months ago. I now pay Xfinity on the Internet Essentials plan. I got a free router. I got a free service call when the cable access doodad in my apartment turned out not to be in working order. I got the first two months free. I now pay $10 a month for interet access.
Oh, and my current laptop was mostly paid for by friends. I think I ended up paying $100 or so out of the roughly $500 price.
Short version- I join in your laughter.
I currently qualify for free unlimited Internet on my phone due to COVID. And, even without that, my “Obamaphone” would let me get a few GBs per month.
And, honestly, the downloads are faster than the DSL I currently use (and have been grandfathered into).
Am I not using an expensive enough internet service to qualify to join the SDMB? Hopefully the bouncers don’t find out.
Our internet service costs about $1200/year. That’s what, a week of college?
We make ok money, but we’re cheap (well, okay, one of us is…), so we got a deal. We spend less on internet than on Lucky Charms…*
But seriously, folks, read that thread. “Internet = Can Go To College” is less weird, and certainly less chilling, than “I have my pre-schooler’s future mapped out to the minute, and he WILL get into an Ivy League school whether he likes it or not.”
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*eta: Yeah, okay, I might be eating too many Lucky Charms…
Especially since the internet = will go to college post was made in response to one that specifically highlighted the possibility that the kid might choose not to go! It was a total non-sequitur, in addition to being wrong.
I didn’t follow that whole thread but it was absurd on its face. Sounds like a treasure trove.
Don’t get me started on intensive parenting.
This sounds like one of those “If you can afford Starbucks coffee, you can afford a house” arguments. There’s a fundamental ignorance of scale involved.
And all of a sudden the thread attracts not one but two first time posters one right after the other, both with “botty” handles? Seems worth keeping an eye on at least.
Can’t find the thread. Was it cornfielded?
Presumably. My guess is that one or both of the recent posters to it were more at home between shoes and feet. All that remains is for us to hope that the OP was trolling from the start, so that no actual children are harmed by the apparently dysfunctional situation outlined.
It’s a shame. Now we’ll never know whether the kid made it to Harvard.
Or if he gets an interview, but his parents’ morality is called into question.
The father’s anyway. OP’s moral high ground is unassailable.
At least we will always have this thread.
Aw man, I missed it. Did the socks stick up for OP? Was there one who was enrolled early and another who was held back and won all the things but can’t sleep at night?
I saw the same post on another message board. 
What’s cornfielding, please?