
It’s fair to say it’s not helping the communities that provided those schools and raised those kids to be successful adults. I think it would be nice if more people were able to use their success to give back to the communities that gave them so much.
Society as a whole doesn’t really benefit much from concentrating wealth, education, and marketable skill into a few places. But if I were graduating Harvard Law I wouldn’t be looking to move back to some rural community where the best steakhouse in town is a Chili’s.
Parents… No.
Communities (which are more than just parents). It’s a little more complicated. It’s really common to see communities celebrate a home town boy who made good.
But are they happy that in a broader sense they aren’t good enough? Do they like being someplace you leave behind? This whole discussion stemmed from a place that had great education and is now circling the drain. I don’t think communities enjoy that kind of thing.
A boomer who provided a great education for their kids in 90s probably wasn’t expecting to grow old in a community with 3rd world healthcare and lunch ladies teaching their grandkids classes because the school won’t hire woke teachers.