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[quote=Anonymous]Oh goodness. We have both, and it’s terrible. Imagine what happens when the checked out parents’ kid bullies the helicoptered kids. Or when teachers assign project groups and they’re a mix of kids from each type of family. Or when they’re putting together math groups- everyone complains but in two very different ways!

The best is that any kind of communications from the school are received with criticism. Either the parents will miss key dates and deadlines and throw a tantrum revolving around how it’s insane to expect parents to read emails and look at calendars, or the other parents will complain that the school is under communicating and will present the front office  with an aggressive communications plan that they’ve had their junior consultants draw up and that requires texts, apps, emails, paper in backpacks and banners trailing from airplanes. And just wait for HS or college admissions.

Neither group will ever be happy and they’re all a pain to deal with and they have their own unique ways to create a toxic culture. But being surrounded by both makes me want to move to a mediocre suburb and just stop trying.[/quote]

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