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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, what I'm going to write is that it's not surprising that people who approach the world the way you do have experiences that lead them into bitter and unproductive interactions with other people.  And that anyone inclined to take your advice should ask herself if this is the road she wants to travel down.

Yes, you can decide that the OD is out to get you and that your best approach toward dealing with this person is to lie in wait until Spring and hope to get him or her fired.   And then you can repeat this performance when your kid is applying to colleges.  Along the way, you can decide that every classmate who gets something your kid wanted and didn't get must have a parent who had an in.  And that every person who took a school administrator's advice is either a sucker or a suck-up.

But there are a host of more productive and more sane ways to approach a situation where someone has been slow to return a couple of emails.   A number have already been pointed out.[/quote]

Bwahahaha!  So no kid who ever went through K-6 exmissions, huh?

I need to point out, yet again, that you're grossly distorting the positions of the several PPs here who have written about their actual experiences.  I've seen a number of posts, including my own, that tell people to work with their ODs, listen, step back a bit, and hope for the best.

But it would be naive, and risky, to assume that the OD is 100% working for you.  There are some other results the OP wants besides your kid's results.  So when you step back, you need to consider the school's interests in this too.  We can quibble about whether it's 50% in your interest or 90% in your interest.  But it's not that the school is working 0% for families (as you've grossly mischaracterized our position) or 100% for families (which seems to be your position).

(And because I have to say it, again:  my kid got into a Big 2, and so I'm not bitter or jealous as you wrote in your typically insulting post.  Nor am I the poster who said to wait to spring to get the OD fired - you're confusing posters who disagree with you.)[/quote]

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