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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]just another way of saying my kid is nto responsible to go away to school ontheir own ot they are not up to the standards of the schol they wanted to go to.

I only met 1 "gap year" kid who was doing something useful.  She went to south america to work in a health clinic and she wants to go to med school, she was already accepted to a great school but deferred a year.  [b]the others are all doing some sort of program that is associated with a lot of drinking.[/b]  so if youa re doing a lot of drinking, you might as well be doing it as a college student.  [/quote]

I think that's called "college." Like my Korean-American freshman roommate at a top-3 university who was drunk out of her mind four nights a week and kept bringing a series of guys to sleep with her in our bedroom. Maybe all that pressure in high school gets to you after a while...[/quote]

And we have a winner in the most irrelevant, idiotic, and bigoted comment on DCUM in the last 24 hours!  Nice going, PP! [/quote]

Why is it bigoted to call it what it is? PPs on this thread have been making all sorts of idiotic generalizations about kids taking gap years being losers. Here's a kid who compiled a stellar high school record to get into a extremely selective school. The moment she gets there, all studying goes to hell, she's out until 3am most nights and comes in reeking of beer with one guy after another. Very sweet gal otherwise, even when she was hung over, which was a lot of the time. What would you infer?[/quote]

The bigotry and idiocy come in with specifying her ethnicity, which is completely irrelevant.   [/quote]

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