Over the past few decades, secondary education has undergone multiple changes. The structure and curricula have changed and the reputations of schools fluctuate. Middle-class parents’ feel for the game has helped them anticipate the complexities within the field of educational decision-making. Preoccupied with the need for well-informed decisionmaking, they therefore proactively engage in an intensive quest for information. When opting for a general track is less self-evident, middle-class parents enter an unfamiliar world that runs counter to their middle-class habitus. As Mieke, a middle-class mother seriously considering a technical option for her child, states: