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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once went to a group playdate and several moms had a whole loud conversation about how they HATE Bethany Beach and think the Outer Banks is so much better. Meanwhile there were several other parents, me included, who go to Bethany every summer, who didn't really participate in the conversation and just looked at each other while trying to be polite.

This pretty funny...The Outer Banks, aka "the Redneck Riviera". heh.

no...much further south. outer banks does not qualify ....think daytona, tampa, paradise island etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once went to a group playdate and several moms had a whole loud conversation about how they HATE Bethany Beach and think the Outer Banks is so much better. Meanwhile there were several other parents, me included, who go to Bethany every summer, who didn't really participate in the conversation and just looked at each other while trying to be polite.

This pretty funny...The Outer Banks, aka "the Redneck Riviera". heh.

no...much further south. outer banks does not qualify ....think daytona, tampa, paradise island etc.

Actually, it refers to the Florida panhandle: Panama City, Destin, etc. But I thought it was funny when I heard it, and having once been suckered into going to Corolla, I think it is quite suitable for OBX--it does qualify based on what I saw. ech.

[Anonymous]

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast

Redneck Riviera, Florida panhandle.

[Anonymous]

My neighbors are upset that we decided to go down the private school road -- they feel that I'm depriving the public school system of a smart kid and a good family.

[Anonymous]

That's not what they are telling everyone else on the block.

[Anonymous]

When I went to private school in NYC, they had a lesson about indentured servants and landowners in 6th grade. The teacher asked everyone whose parents owned property to raise their hands - everyone but me and one other FA student. She then told me and the other FA student that we would have been the indentured servants in front of the entire class. I really enjoyed the school overall, and many of the other kids were very nice, but never forgot that situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question, PP. How do you know that the child is on full FA?

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

I'd like to know too. Is he (gasp!) non white so assuming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question, PP. How do you know that the child is on full FA?

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

I'd like to know too. Is he (gasp!) non white so assuming?

You have to read the whole thread. Already asked and answered: OP of the topic answered other posters' questions, saying that the parent of the full FA student makes no secret of her receiving full FA.

[Anonymous]

It is obviously hateful that the poster felt that someone on FA had less entitlement to complain about the food than someone who paid full tuition. That being said, I feel that regardless of your FA status, complaining about the food is sort of a negative and tacky thing to do, if you don't know the other parents at the table that well. We pay full tuition, and I wouldn't feel comfortable saying, "Oh, little Tommy just hates this food" while eating the food with other parents. But that clearly doesn't make the poster's bias against FA recipients right.

[Anonymous]

In trying to defend/explain sending her DS to ST. Albans School by making the point that she wanted her son to be surrounded by bright, athletic, ambitous boys -- "Birds of a feather, flock together."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In trying to defend/explain sending her DS to ST. Albans School by making the point that she wanted her son to be surrounded by bright, athletic, ambitous boys -- "Birds of a feather, flock together."

I don't see that as being an obnoxious comment. Don't we all want our children to be in schools with good cohorts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In trying to defend/explain sending her DS to ST. Albans School by making the point that she wanted her son to be surrounded by bright, athletic, ambitous boys -- "Birds of a feather, flock together."

I don't see that as being an obnoxious comment. Don't we all want our children to be in schools with good cohorts?

Besides, this thread is about things said by parents at your own child's school, not some other school.

[Anonymous]

A parent at my DC's school likes to say that her DC could easily be at Phillips Exeter if he wished. She also likes to say that they could easily use the address of one of their condos in VA if her DC wished to attend Thomas Jefferson. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

DC had just accepted to the school, and I was curious as to whether anyone carpools. I asked a veteran parent at the school whom we had known casually for a couple of years, "Do you carpool with anyone?"

His answer: "Uh . . . we hahve a drivuh."

Later I chuckled to myself when I learned that the "driver" is actually not someone they hire just to drive the car but an afternoon babysitter who also picks up the kids after school. A bit pretentious to claim to have a driver.

[Anonymous]

Reading this thread makes me think I'll just homeschool.