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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is at school at the school I graduated from and that my family has always been prominent donors at (sorry to say it that way, but it’s contextual, I promise).

She decided with full support from me and my DH to apply out this year. It’s been obvious for a few years that she could get more out of a different kind of school but it’s taken all of us some guts to admit it.

Anyway, we were transparent with school about both the fact that we were applying out and the fact that we haven’t made any final choices because we don’t have choices yet. We haven’t said a peep to anyone else save for the teachers who wrote her recs and have no desire to poison the well or spread discontent or anything.

Nevertheless, I am getting a constant stream of guilt-tripping and commentary from administrators who shouldn’t even know about the applications. One of them even said “do you realize how bad this looks for our school?”. Another person from development checked in to make sure that the remainder of our pledge for the year was going to process. A 3rd person who I work with as a volunteer has been guilt tripping me and saying that if my DD switches schools and I am not volunteering anymore, x y and z bad things will happen. They’re making me feel like it will be my family’s fault if totally unrelated initiatives don’t come to fruition in the future.

I’m trying really hard to be gracious but they are not making it easy. Has anyone experienced this? If we were even vaguely in the fence, this would have definitely pushed us to leave no matter what. Which is what our plan is now anyway. [/quote]

As a private school teacher this whole scenario sounds completely bonkers to me. [/quote]

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