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What's the Most Obnoxious Thing You've Heard a Parent Say at Your DC's Private School?
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Anonymous
Some variation of this has happened at every single parent gathering I've been to. These folks don't know what a parody they've become. |
Anonymous
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Said another father to my husband while peeking at the inner label of his suit. "Two words. Brooks Brothers."
He wasn't joking. |
Anonymous
| I once went to a group playdate and several moms had a whole loud conversation about how they HATE Bethany Beach and think the Outer Banks is so much better. Meanwhile there were several other parents, me included, who go to Bethany every summer, who didn't really participate in the conversation and just looked at each other while trying to be polite. |
Anonymous
I know someone whose child has been in daycare since he was two months old and is now nearly five and is painfully, painfully shy. His dad tells everyone that he's worried the private schools won't challenge him enough because his daycare did such a great job at socializing him, and all the kids who went to playgroups for normal-hour nursery/preschools are way "behind" his child socially. He says this every time I see him, even though my kids went to normal nursery school. |
Anonymous
This pretty funny...The Outer Banks, aka "the Redneck Riviera". heh. |
Anonymous
Do people have the same negative reactions if/when parents ask about their autistic kids? Or are these kids by definition not at the same open houses? Or do people just not believe that giftedness is real? I'm just constantly surprised at the vitriol directed at parents attempting to get information about what is going to work for their kid if they are not in one of the accepted categories for special needs. And, no, I am not the parent of a gifted child, nor have I applied to nor been rejected from any private schools. Just curious about what drives this animosity. |
Anonymous
I think people get pissy about the "What can you do for my gifted child?" question because it sounds like a not-so-subtle brag in a situation where everyone in the room probably considers her own child the most gifted. I agree with you that it can be a legitimate question, but it will always raise hackles. |
Anonymous
hilarious! |
Anonymous
So FA families should put up and shut up? They are not entitled to lodge complaints? |
Anonymous
A question about an individual child, whether autistic, gifted, learning-disabled, or whatever, is inappropriate in the context of a group tour. The purpose of a group tour is to see the school and ask general questions - not to meet on an individual level re: your individual circumstance. |
Anonymous
| Mine was not in a private school setting but at my 3 yr old son's soccer practice. He was taking the orange cones and instead of dribbling around them, placing them on his head and being goofy. Another little boy was watching him and then started to do it too (obviously he thought it was fun). I smiled at his mom and she gave me a curt smile back, but I later I saw her take her son aside and tell him that he shouldn't play with my son. I felt really sorry for her kid - our kids were having fun. |
Anonymous
I agree. But, if a parent asked about how the school would accomodate their autistic child during a group tour it would not have made the "most obnoxious" list. |
Anonymous
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Here's mine:
Potomac School prospective K parent talk with the head. A father commented on how beautiful the grounds were (which is accurate), and then went on to ask if there were "equestrian opportunities" at the school. |
Anonymous
| I don't really think that's bad pp. I think it was a valid question. |
Anonymous
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I wrote 13:18 and i also have an autistic child, high functioning, so I can tell 14:36 that NONE of the parents who I've seen ask these questions have autistic children. My autistic child goes to a mainstream school and you can bet that any questions I have about his needs I'll ask in private. And even though he taught himself how to read when he was 3 and is advanced academically, I have never asked this question, "my child is gifted, I need to know if you can challenge him." he is challenged enough learning the social rules of school, attending, handling transitions. And once learning became more abstract, that involved challenges as well.
Often parents of autistic children can be blinded by their gifts. I'm not saying this is you, but my child's giftedness is not the source of his challenges. His autism is. Thats what I need his school to attend to. And this other parents who are simply bragging, yes I do feel embarrassed for them. |