Who is Father from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and what is their importance?

John's father is a retired military man and teacher at the Tilton school. His mother is also a teacher at the school. They teach John that he is superior to other people in the town, even though he neither feels it, nor sees it in comparison to the other boys at the school. His father is very adamant that he go to Tilton school and both he and John's mother get him accepted. They are both portrayed as snobby people, who believe they are better than most. They even believed that their college, Middlebury, was better than any Ivy League school and convince John to turn down a full sports scholarship to Brown to attend Middlebury.