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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean this both on here and IRL. My child is a senior in high school and there are kids and parents saying really mean things to their classmates about what college they're going to. I hope you realize that there are a number of reasons why someone may be going to a ''bad'' college: their parents have no college savings for them (regardless of the parents income), the parents are professors or staff at the college the kid is going to, the kid has a family tradition of going to that college, the kid has medical issues that require staying within a certain radius from home, the kid is majoring in something where the school matters very little (e.g. nursing or elementary education), the school had a very niche program the student is interested in, or maybe the student is just an okay student. And as for the last point, that does not make them a bad PERSON. Understand that not every child has a burning desire to make a gazillion bucks, either.

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For a confident child none of this needs to be explained, not sorry if you think that's mean.[/quote]

There is lots of teasing kids over this in high school. I am not sorry if you need me to explain that.[/quote]

“Teasing” is part of high school and if your kid doesn’t have the confidence to handle it, get them outside help, or parent them, until they can. I am not sorry if you need me to explain that.[/quote]

This is exactly the philosophy of the parents and administration at the private school that my DC attended in the DC area through middle school. FWIW, my kid was fine there, but we are so happy that we left the DC area and let my DC discover that not everyone in the world is like this.  [/quote]

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