School stickers on cars.... views?

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Anonymous wrote:Private school stickers on cars is yucky. My kids bring home the magnets and want to put them on the car. I say, nicely, that they can put the magnets on the fridge. When they ask why they can't put them on the car I ask them how they think *they* might feel if they went to public school and saw a car with a sticker for an expensive private school. It takes them about two seconds to go, "Uh, I guess I might feel like they were bragging, and think they're better than I am, and I might feel excluded?"

Bingo. Magnets are for fridges.

Bwah ha ha. What else are you telling your kids about how us poor public school slobs in Bethesda live? That we can only afford a cleaning person once a week? That we can only afford to ski in Colorado rather than France? Yes indeed it is a sad life that we lead.

Not trying to spare your delicate feelings, Bethesda-ites. Trying to avoid noxiousness to the 98% who can't afford either private school OR ski vacations OR cleaning ladies. Once again: private school magnets are displayed by the oblivious and by the insecure. If you're neither oblivious of class dynamics not full of raging insecurities, put the magnets on your fridge If your kids insist, or, better still, put them in the trash.

It is so good of you to spare the feelings of those poor public school children. We are humbled by your goodness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Private school stickers on cars is yucky. My kids bring home the magnets and want to put them on the car. I say, nicely, that they can put the magnets on the fridge. When they ask why they can't put them on the car I ask them how they think *they* might feel if they went to public school and saw a car with a sticker for an expensive private school. It takes them about two seconds to go, "Uh, I guess I might feel like they were bragging, and think they're better than I am, and I might feel excluded?"

Bingo. Magnets are for fridges.

Bwah ha ha. What else are you telling your kids about how us poor public school slobs in Bethesda live? That we can only afford a cleaning person once a week? That we can only afford to ski in Colorado rather than France? Yes indeed it is a sad life that we lead.

Not trying to spare your delicate feelings, Bethesda-ites. Trying to avoid noxiousness to the 98% who can't afford either private school OR ski vacations OR cleaning ladies. Once again: private school magnets are displayed by the oblivious and by the insecure. If you're neither oblivious of class dynamics not full of raging insecurities, put the magnets on your fridge If your kids insist, or, better still, put them in the trash.

It is so good of you to spare the feelings of those poor public school children. We are humbled by your goodness.

I'm pretty sure that most kids couldn't care less --- parents on the other hand . . .