NP. I was a public school kid from NoVa at UVA. My best friend, boyfriend, and the man who I would eventually marry were all private school kids, two of the three with hefty trust funds. I was a better student than all of them, I might add. Watch it, you might end up with a DIL or SIL who went to public school someday! |
OP said the other parent stated where their child was admitted. How is that inappropriate? |
PP. Above post makes me laugh because I come from an Ivy, Greek, and prep school family background but didn't choose that for myself. And my kids aren't choosing it either, though they could. And the richest trust fund kid I knew OD'd in his early 20s. And the others (some DMV private educated) are far less professionally successful than my family. You have to want that clubby rich lifestyle to feel hurt about not having it. And some people are actively harmed by it. |
Sure, Jan. And that's why you're trolling the private school forum on a Saturday night. P.S. If what you write is true, you're nothing but a common social climber and gold digger. |
Weird that you can’t believe this would be true. Sorry if this is a difficult prospect for some of you to consider. Not trolling this forum, just scrolling through Recent Topics while I wait for some water to boil. And I certainly wasn’t gold digging with any of these people. I met my best friend because she lived across the hall in my freshman dorm—we became friends organically, has that ever happened for you? She introduced to me to a friend of hers who became my boyfriend. And then my husband I met all on my own. He still likes me all these years later despite my public school taint. |
I don’t agree at all. The person was passive aggressive and insulting and you are basically doing the same thing by implying the OP is an insecure “private school” parent. I think your biases are showing PP. Is that a chip on your shoulder?? |
Oh okay, the quiet part out loud! No worries, many of our kids would never want to be in a fraternity or join a selective club. |
The person stated where their kid got admitted. Same as OP. How is that passive aggressive on one person’s part but not the other’s? Perhaps OP’s biases - and yours - are showing. |
Well - as an outsider who has not taken part in losing weight "by taking Ozempic" or "by changing my eating/exercise habits" - if I overheard this conversation I would think the response saying "I ate sensibly and exercised" was jaw dropping and not necessary - clearly an obnoxious jab. |
+1. OP never states HOW thet were passive aggressive or WHAT they actually said. You are supposed to take her one-sided report of the situation as a given. Which is absurd. |
Their point is valid |
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I didn't read the comments. OP, when I encountered similar comments from an acquaintance about various purchases I made that she felt were a waste of money (new car instead of used, private school instead of public, flying to vacation instead of driving) I always just said "Oh well, true, but it's just money. You can't take it with you."
She didn't like this because then the implication is that we have so much money these purchases are inconsequential to us. The truth is we have good reasons for each of these choices, but they are none of her business, and it's so rude and nosy to quiz people about how they spend their money I never felt bad pretending we were too rich for it to make a difference. Let her stew and wonder, I don't care. |
No - (over multiple posts) the OP said the other parent said something akin to "my public school kid got into the same schools your private school kid got into" - I wasn't there and obviously context is important. But I'm saying that in our experience - public parents making this sort of statement (saying their kid is public and your kid is private) are the same ones who seem to repeatedly make snide comments and have some weird grudge or chip on their shoulder about the other family choosing private. Like I said - I ignore this (and by now I think it's funny....because over multiple kids in private from k-12 - I have also seen some of these same public families later end up turning to private for one of their kids....THEN they get it...that many of us are just finding a match for our kid and we never drew some imaginary line saying public isn't "good enough for us".)_ |
LOL - that's a nice angle. |
+1 |