Dumb "W" school asking kids to wear their newly accepted College Shirts on May 1st

[Anonymous]

QO an Poolesville are doing this too

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I felt bad for one girl at my HS who went to our local community college and didn’t wear a sweatshirt on college day. Jokes on me, she transferred to UCLA and went to grad school at Oxford. Now very, very successful as an adult.

All of these kids have a lot of life ahead of them.

[Anonymous]

Do you get this upset if they wear varsity sports wear or something else that sets them apart? If not, examine what you are truly upset about.

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Anonymous wrote:Our idiotic "W" school in MCPS has done it again. Such a disgusting place. Can't stand it anymore.

Dumb place sent out a notification for kids to wear their college sweatshirt to school on May 1st.

What is this? So kids can brag more about the swanky, expensive colleges they got into and make others feel badly who were waitlisted or had to take second choice? Yuck. I know I know - we bought here thinking it was a "good" School.. NO! A school of pushy, rude parents who only look out for number one. Themselves and their kids. It's awful.

What about a kid who may have to go to Montgomery College? What if someone isn't going to college? What if someone comes from low income housing and cannot afford college? What if What if What if?? Not bad in and of itself but geez. My kid is likely going to UMD and has already received a number of snarky comments. On waitlist that won't get off of while kid x, y, z parades in and out with a Michigan sweatshirt daily.

Why does this idiot school allow this? What is wrong with these people? Isn't the instagram they are exposed to daily bad enough???

Stop the madness. It's cruel to some of these kids who are not thrilled with college decision.

I wore my college tshirt to school in 1980. Was a great way to see who else is going where. SUNY Stonybrook representing back then

[Anonymous]

Be like that idiot kid at my Great Neck HS who did not wear his shirt so people had to ask him do he could brag about Harvard and his 1,600 SAT

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Guess Senior Beach Week and Prom are triggering events

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If people are sensitive about others knowing where they go to college --- they have big problems ahead.

Don't think so little of your student, and their choice, that this is a problem.

[Anonymous]

ALL schools, across the US do this

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Anonymous wrote:This has been a tradition at every school, everywhere since forever.

Not where I grew up. If this is a tradition, it is in very poor taste.

[Anonymous]

Went to school in the 90s. We did this. It was fun to see how many different colleges were represented and to see that a couple people were going to the same college as me, but I wasn't friends with them before and didn't know it!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been a tradition at every school, everywhere since forever.

Not where I grew up. If this is a tradition, it is in very poor taste.[/quote



Ok, Emily Post.

[Anonymous]

This isn't a W school or even a private school thing. I have one in private and two in public. Both types of schooling have done this. The public school even publishes each senior's college choice in their newspaper in May.

Heck, when I graduated from a Fairfax Co. public school ages ago we did the same thing. Everyone wore the tshirt of where they were accepted and photos were taken. Imagine doing that in the 90s when not everyone went to college!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been a tradition at every school, everywhere since forever.

Not where I grew up. If this is a tradition, it is in very poor taste.

My kids went to two different MCPS HSs and I was not aware of it at either. I do not think they had any school tshirts before getting there in the fall. One is at an Ivy and one is at a "Oh ok...where is that?" school. I am guessing there are many kids that do not participate so don't if you do not want to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: goes to a competitive school full of strivers because it is a "good" school

School: is full of strivers

OP: /shocked Pikachu

Some of us just live places.
-not op

Did Scotty just been you up

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Anonymous wrote: Be like that idiot kid at my Great Neck HS who did not wear his shirt so people had to ask him do he could brag about Harvard and his 1,600 SAT

That's not enough to get into Harvard these days.