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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP as one who is in the same position, I will now say thank you! now to the mother who told me that there would be "haters" and that they would diss your school, your child and you -- simply from jealousy. It has nothing to do with you, what you said what you did -- truly all about them. Friends could barely choke out a congrats and one woman got so angry my DS said, "I thought she was going to hit you!" She asked, I answered. I did not bring it up. I am not going to lie for her benefit. Also, DS will be going there and it is public around their circle of friends. It is part of going to an elite school --not everyone is going to like it or be nice about it. People DO get VERY jealous, and some cannot continue the friendship because they feel so very much that it should have been their DC, not yours... Flame away, but that is the truth.[/quote]

Don't hate ne because I'm beautiful  :roll:

[b]How about a little understanding and compassion[/b]? You can afford it, you know. It's not incumbent on you to take this lofty Marie Antoinette attitude.[/quote]

Not the PP you are quoting but understanding and compassion for whom?  The other parents who are acting like brats because their child is not going to a given school for whatever reason?  [/quote]

Nevermind. You're right, disappointment is the exact same thing as brattiness. You're also right that there's no need for sensitivity from OP or yourself.  :roll:

Yeah, I don't think I'd want you as a friend, and my kid DID get into a cathedral school. [/quote]

Yeah, still don't think you understand what the original post said but you are right, disapointment and brattiness are not the same thing.  It's one thing to feel disapointment but to take it out on another is bratty.  So what exactly should we feel compassion for bad behavior?  Nothing in the original post implies that the OP was not showing compassion but merely asks if others have had the same experience.  Additionally, I would say that inquiry into wether or not this was a common thing to happen when time at a school wraps up implies, to me, that OP has some interest in minting what she precieved to be friendships.  Oh, and did you send your kid to a cathedral school or are you bitter because you didn't?[/quote]

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