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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think they sometimes reject the 2nd kid because they'd like the family to leave altogether?[/quote]

I've seen this a couple of times at the school our boys attended.

It's in some cases a stinging rebuke and not something the school does lightly. The school knows when they do this that there is going to be a backlash. They know some parents are going to be furious. They know they are going to have to deal with the repercussions. They know it's going to be a much-discussed topic among the other parents with many feeling the school was being unduly harsh.

But, there are cases where its a decision they are willing to make. The second sibling they reject may have academic or behavioral or social problems they don't want to deal with for however long the second child will be at the school.

And/or the school is sick of the parents or one of the parents. The case I am most familiar with involved parents who could just not get the child to school on time. And they constantly argued with administrators and teachers. The second boy, who was rejected was academically on the border line, but the real reason was they wanted not to have to deal with these parents for another four years.

There was no expectation the parents were going to withdraw the first child. But that would not have been unwelcome.[/quote]

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