What's the Most Obnoxious Thing You've Heard a Parent Say at Your DC's Private School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the "Which School Supports Academically Advanced Kids" thread, this sour grapes post about public magnet kids:

To the poster who asked about the MoCo magnet/CTY connection. The CTYers are probably a small (and certainly not random)* sample of kids who go to MoCo magnets, but my DC said she was surprised how similar they were and how different from her school friends (also not a random sample), because they were really into the black and white fact stuff (map quiz) which she found somewhat tedious and not into the sociological/economic/philosophical issues that really grabbed her (and that her friends would have been eager to discuss). A number of the kids claimed their parents had made them go to CTY and they didn't want to be there. She said they seemed stressed and competitive and their idea of fun was to do mindless stuff which was the last thing she expected at CTY. One example she mentioned was that when the class went to the college bookstore each week, she was the only one who wanted to look at the books -- the rest just wanted to buy snacks. Her comment was "if this is what smart's supposed to be, I want no part of it."

This quote has nothing to do with what's the most obnoxious thing a parent said at their DC's private school.....

Well she wasn't strictly at her private school, but she identified herself as a GDS mom, and she's talking snootily about publics....

[Anonymous]

Sorry, the snippet is from a longer post where she identified herself as a GDS mom, even though she probably wasn't at GDS when she posted this on DCUM.