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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A fellow parent at our small school posted a glowing announcement of acceptance of their eighth graders high school decision, including a link to the school(it is a school everyone has heard of believe me), and I think it’s so insensitive given how few students there are in the eighth grade class and that a lot of the parents follow each other on social media, and that of course not everyone gets into their first choice these days. My child is not even in the same grade, so I am not feeling put out because my child didn’t get into that particular school however it really sat badly with me. I now see them as pretty self-absorbed and insensitive people. Is this common practice in DC? Also it struck me as really out of touch given that this is a school that is over 50k a year and she is parading it around in front of hundreds of her “friends”, most people would not be even able to consider it. Again, this doesn’t bother me personally but in the broad view of things feels really tone deaf. Is it just me?[/quote]

No, you are over thinking this. People post all kinds of stuff on SM. Posting that their child got into X HS is something to be proud of in that accomplishment (because while the child did most of the work, parents absolutely aided in that accomplishment). If someone else is offended by it then the response should be you can't go through life thinking you will never be offended nnd I can't control what offends you. Posting about your kid getting into a HS is so far down the offense list that it shouldn't even warrant a post much less 8 or 9 pages of responses.[/quote]

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