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

[Anonymous]

OP needs to get a life. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the next chapter of your life. If someone else's success or victory dims your light, then that's a problem you need to deal with.

Let the kids enjoy their success.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP needs to get a life. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the next chapter of your life. If someone else's success or victory dims your light, then that's a problem you need to deal with.

Let the kids enjoy their success.

This!! Don’t like it, don’t participate.

[Anonymous]

Agree with the previous posters: most schools in the area do this. It is a celebration of moving on, whetever you are moving on too, and everyone should be happy about it.

Newsflash, very few go to HYPS, very few will drive a Lamborghini, and very few will be as wealthy as that idiot Musk. Are YOU unhappy they are at UMD or MC? Please don't put your judgment on your child - My kid is thrilled to be at UMD!

[Anonymous]

Must every facet of American life be thrown overboard because someone, somewhere might get their feelings hurt?!

Just shut up already. There is nothing wrong with celebrating success. There’s nothing wrong with a school setting a day to celebrate the holistic success of an entire class of graduates and all the cool places they’re going—big, small, prestigious, state, far and wide.

Frankly it’s OP and her ilk that are the petty ones, putting a negative spin on this. Not to mention pushy and annoying—the whole world doesn’t have to agree with you, and those who don’t aren’t bad people. Maybe grow up a little bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must every facet of American life be thrown overboard because someone, somewhere might get their feelings hurt?!

Just shut up already. There is nothing wrong with celebrating success. There’s nothing wrong with a school setting a day to celebrate the holistic success of an entire class of graduates and all the cool places they’re going—big, small, prestigious, state, far and wide.

Frankly it’s OP and her ilk that are the petty ones, putting a negative spin on this. Not to mention pushy and annoying—the whole world doesn’t have to agree with you, and those who don’t aren’t bad people. Maybe grow up a little bit.

Unpopular opinion, but I’ll say it anyway:
People nowadays are pu$$ies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must every facet of American life be thrown overboard because someone, somewhere might get their feelings hurt?!

Just shut up already. There is nothing wrong with celebrating success. There’s nothing wrong with a school setting a day to celebrate the holistic success of an entire class of graduates and all the cool places they’re going—big, small, prestigious, state, far and wide.

Frankly it’s OP and her ilk that are the petty ones, putting a negative spin on this. Not to mention pushy and annoying—the whole world doesn’t have to agree with you, and those who don’t aren’t bad people. Maybe grow up a little bit.

OP is wealthy and complaining about others wealth. She or he choose an expensive house over paying for college. UMD is a good school

[Anonymous]

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.

Agree. How super RACIST of high schools who engage in this ELITIST nonsense. Shame on them.

Do NOT engage in their RACIST behavior.

[Anonymous]

Everything is not bragging

There is fun. Life can be joyful. There is that possibility. Students may make a connection, "hey, you're going to college near me!"

[Anonymous]

This is not a "W" school thing; this is an American high school thing. As others have said, instagram accounts for DC high school are posting individual students with their college choice. This happened at my high school (out of state) - OP, have you not experienced this growing up???

[Anonymous]

I went to a public high school where most kids went to college and they would never have done this there. I think it's really tacky. For the kids who are really enthusiastic about their college plans, there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate that. And people find out where kids are going. But obviously for kids who are disappointed or who don't know if they can put the money together or who might not go to college or might do community college first or just do community college... the "where are you going?" question can be awkward and the feeling of being surrounded by happy college bound students stressful.

Like the upside is very limited and the downside is very pronounced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not a "W" school thing; this is an American high school thing. As others have said, instagram accounts for DC high school are posting individual students with their college choice. This happened at my high school (out of state) - OP, have you not experienced this growing up???

Those IG accounts aren't run by the school though. Of course kids find out where others are going to school, some kids will be very open about it and splash it on their social media, etc. But OP is talking about a special day that is run by the school/PTA and that could be really unwelcoming for a segment of the school population. Sure, those kids might also feel hurt by the IG accounts or the general environment of people talking endlessly about college, and that's something they will need to figure out how to deal with. But why make it worse? Why make it official?

I say this as someone who went to a very well-regarded college and whose child is very academically successful and we'll be able to afford send her wherever she wants. So it's not about saving my feelings or my kid's feelings -- it just seems obvious that this will cause issues for some kids and isn't really necessary.

[Anonymous]

Your kid is getting snarky comments for going to UMD??

Well, I guess that is your fault for living in the snobby Whitman district.

My kids go to Einstein and kids that are ecstatic if they go to UMD. It's the top choice since it is the affordable in state flagship.

I agree the sweatshirt tradition is obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Local area high school newspapers (both public and private) still publish where graduating seniors are going to college. It’s usually the final issue. They’ve been doing this since time immemorial and the kids still seem to enjoy it.

The college sweatshirt thing is also common among all schools. It’s up to the students (usu through the SGA or SCA) and the school’s DSA if there is a desire to end these traditions for whatever reason.

[Anonymous]

I never actually saw this done until we moved to the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid is getting snarky comments for going to UMD??

Well, I guess that is your fault for living in the snobby Whitman district.

My kids go to Einstein and kids that are ecstatic if they go to UMD. It's the top choice since it is the affordable in state flagship.

I agree the sweatshirt tradition is obnoxious.

No one is making snarky comments at Whitman or any other local school about attending UMD. It’s a great school and harder to get into every year.