Kids are snarky too

[Anonymous]

To the OP......You simply commented on your observations...and got attacked.

You don't even have to defend your post......this entire thread proves your point about parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First situation sounds like a put-down. Second situation sounds like an observation.

I guess it depends on the tone. From my perspective, when my DS left his base school for the AAP center, I gave away all the t-shirts from his base school. I didn't want to deal with anyone asking why he was still wearing them. At the time I told myself I was overthinking it, but maybe not.

Jesus. Are you for real? As first PP said, DAFUQ?

You're really hung up on this AAP thing and believe it to be special or an accomplishment or something, I take it?

I should have added "Parents at his base school are a little snarky towards kids who leave for the AAP center, especially when the kids come back to the base school for a sibling's event." Sounds like you might be one of them.

[Anonymous]

You all do know what DAFUQ means, right? Kind of sounds like WTF...get it? Get over yourselves. You should probably unload that frog T-shirt and pink shorts you wore in HS/College too!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the OP......You simply commented on your observations...and got attacked.

You don't even have to defend your post......this entire thread proves your point about parents.

+1 So true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the OP......You simply commented on your observations...and got attacked.

You don't even have to defend your post......this entire thread proves your point about parents.

+1 So true.

Well, except for the weird tshirt lady the mean spirited losts were from those who hate AAP, so I guess it does say something and prove a point, even if it was not the point you wanted to make.

There were also a lot of reasonable and neutral posts by people who may love or hate AAP, but didn't show their stripes one way or another.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the OP......You simply commented on your observations...and got attacked.

You don't even have to defend your post......this entire thread proves your point about parents.

+1 So true.

Well, except for the weird tshirt lady the mean spirited losts were from those who hate AAP, so I guess it does say something and prove a point, even if it was not the point you wanted to make.

There were also a lot of reasonable and neutral posts by people who may love or hate AAP, but didn't show their stripes one way or another.

That was hardly the impression I got in reading through this thread. AAP parents are far and away the most likely to deny that their kids could ever, in a million years, bully other kids or even say snarky things to them. It's really pretty amusing to see the spin they put on situations like these.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So I reported a few months ago that I attended an Odyssey of the Mind awards ceremony and when South Lakes High school won an award, the Indian kids from TJ who sat in front of me remarked "is that a high school?" and then laughed.

Well today, I was at a youth athletic event and one of the kids had on a loud tie dyed "Haycock Elementary" t shirt. One kid made fun of him and said he actually goes to Lemon Road now.

Parents got to have some influence on this self perceived elitist behavior.

I could see the second example being not mean. If a man was with the Cowboys and then was with the Redskins, and he wore his old Cowboys shirt, it would be a little funny to say, "Uh, you are actually with the Redskins now." I don't see your example meaning that the child was making fun of him as in his education was downgraded somehow.

OP here...the tone of the kid's voice and the laugh was actually in a demeaning way.

To me, it sounds like you're looking for examples and you'll find them or, probably more accurately, will read into things until you do.

Please. Whether you think I was looking for examples or whatever, nothing was made up.

When you have a bunch of kids together and one kid tells all the other kids "hey, look at this guy....." and yelling out loud, it catches your attention. Don't try to make excuses when none can be made.

I don't see these actions as mean even if you accept as true the regular sized kid talking about a bigger kid or your comment above. It truly sounds like a kid commenting about a child wearing a shirt from a school he doesn't attend anymore and it struck him as ironic like the Redskins/Cowboy example. Don't get me wrong, I know there can be an elitist mentality with some kids, but I still think you are looking to find and assign fault.

You weren't there, I was. The tone of the kid who was talking to the Lemon Road kid was a dismissive tone.

Stop apologizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neither of the two examples the OP dredged up in 2014 seem very serious to me. I wonder how the OP will react if/when she has to deal with real bullying some day.

Hello?

Real bullying? Plenty of kids kill themselves over mental/verbal bullying....not just from getting their teeth kicked in on a daily basis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of the two examples the OP dredged up in 2014 seem very serious to me. I wonder how the OP will react if/when she has to deal with real bullying some day.

Hello?

Real bullying? Plenty of kids kill themselves over mental/verbal bullying....not just from getting their teeth kicked in on a daily basis.

By any standard, these incidents don't sound like mental/verbal bullying. People like you who make a big deal out of obviously trivial incidents make it harder for those who have been on the receiving end of real abuse to be heard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of the two examples the OP dredged up in 2014 seem very serious to me. I wonder how the OP will react if/when she has to deal with real bullying some day.

Hello?

Real bullying? Plenty of kids kill themselves over mental/verbal bullying....not just from getting their teeth kicked in on a daily basis.

By any standard, these incidents don't sound like mental/verbal bullying. People like you who make a big deal out of obviously trivial incidents make it harder for those who have been on the receiving end of real abuse to be heard.

Interesting. So if the kids in question had been in AAP and the kid doing the mocking was not, then this would be a case of bullying? But since it's the reverse, it's not? Puh-leeze.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of the two examples the OP dredged up in 2014 seem very serious to me. I wonder how the OP will react if/when she has to deal with real bullying some day.

Hello?

Real bullying? Plenty of kids kill themselves over mental/verbal bullying....not just from getting their teeth kicked in on a daily basis.

By any standard, these incidents don't sound like mental/verbal bullying. People like you who make a big deal out of obviously trivial incidents make it harder for those who have been on the receiving end of real abuse to be heard.

Interesting. So if the kids in question had been in AAP and the kid doing the mocking was not, then this would be a case of bullying? But since it's the reverse, it's not? Puh-leeze.

I didn't hear any proof the kids were in AAP. You don't need to be in AAP to attend TJ or Haycock.

Either way, the incidents sound like, at worst, minor trash-talking, not bullying.

[Anonymous]

AAP disrupts community, tears apart friendships, separates siblings. It sucks. Nothing new here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AAP disrupts community, tears apart friendships, separates siblings. It sucks. Nothing new here.

+1

[Anonymous]

My 11 year old was told recently by an AAP center student of the same age that he wasn't as smart because he wasn't in AAP center. The AAP kids said ask me any question and I will answer it. So my child did...he still hasn't gotten an answer.

[Anonymous]

Still remember the mom who was concerned about the GT students being in with the "regular" kids because GT would be bored and disruptive. This was at a public meeting. Irony: her son didn't go to college after high school.