This is because when the family budget is tight, parents send sons, not daughters to schools.
If you always say no and follow this with a lecture about saving money, you will be known as the "Tight Parent", the one who never buys anything.
Women inherently clutch their purses tighter, parents gather their children afraid that, like a giant eagle, I might just swoop in and lift one off to parts unknown.
Other barriers to choice, both parents and providers said, were the inaccurate lists of approved tutoring services and the tight deadlines parents were given for applying.
Money was tight; my parents had my sister and me, then my father wanted a son.
Ferrara, who after graduating from Harvard in 1996 earned medical and business degrees from Columbia, said he expected marketing to focus less on schools, whose budgets are tight, than parents with concern for their child.
With 21 school budgets for 2005-6 rejected by voters last year -- 8 in Nassau and 13 in Suffolk -- money is tight, and parent-teacher association funds cannot fill the entire void.
As more resources get devoted to the VR efforts of Oculus, expect to see the relationship grow tighter between parent company and child.
"The money was tight, and my parents didn't really have anything when we were in high school, so they couldn't help at all," she said.
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