Posting child’s acceptance to an elite school on social media. Too much?
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Anonymous
| A fellow parent at our small school posted a glowing announcement of acceptance of their eighth graders high school decision, including a link to the school(it is a school everyone has heard of believe me), and I think it’s so insensitive given how few students there are in the eighth grade class and that a lot of the parents follow each other on social media, and that of course not everyone gets into their first choice these days. My child is not even in the same grade, so I am not feeling put out because my child didn’t get into that particular school however it really sat badly with me. I now see them as pretty self-absorbed and insensitive people. Is this common practice in DC? Also it struck me as really out of touch given that this is a school that is over 50k a year and she is parading it around in front of hundreds of her “friends”, most people would not be even able to consider it. Again, this doesn’t bother me personally but in the broad view of things feels really tone deaf. Is it just me? |
Anonymous
| Tacky. Brag to your family and real friends. This is just showing off. |
Anonymous
| Hell, I didn't even post on FB when my son got into Yale. Nobody cares about high school. |
Anonymous
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Ridiculous.
Just makes the parent look desperate. |
Anonymous
| Who cares? We didn’t do it but don’t wish ill on anyone else |
Anonymous
| Parents get to be proud of their children. Where your child if going for high school shouldn’t be a shameful secret. If you can’t be happy for them you shouldn’t follow them. |
Anonymous
| Tacky. |
Anonymous
| Allow people to be happy for a few minutes. |
Anonymous
| This is just a different flavor of [why did they post this braggy thing on SM]. Because… that’s the point of SM! |
Anonymous
| She’s going to fit right in at her $50k school. |
Anonymous
| Please add this to the list of gross adult behavior that social media has normalized! Along with posting how many goals your child scores in every game, saying things like another tournament another championship with a pic of your child’s team, any pics on the stairs of a private plane - shall I keep going! |
Anonymous
| I'd say its fine as long as it is a #BigThree. |
Anonymous
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OP here
Thanks for the reality check that it isn’t just me that finds this tacky… I agree sharing this sort of news is for family and real friends only. Oh well, as PP said add it to the list… |
Anonymous
This is a beautiful & mature thought. |
Anonymous
My child goes to a #BigThree and I would never. 😆 |