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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find interesting about “striver” is that it’s never a criticism of a specific person’s actual behavior. It’s always lashing out at some vague group of people that are blamed for the poster’s kids shortcomings.[/quote]

Nope. Not at all. I can cite lots of strivers. I went to school with a bunch of them. And few things brought me more joy than outperforming them. Which I did more often than not. My kid goes to school with a few. And they outperform the strivers more often than not also.[/quote]

You are an adult creeping on high school kids, and you made your obsession with competing against your classmates a people a pillar of your personality. How can you deny being the striver?[/quote]

How am I creeping on HS kids? And no, I was not obsessed. I just found it kind of amusing that I got better grades than these kids while not sacrificing my decency and values and being an insufferable suck-up. People tend not to like strivers (at least at places that aren't full of them). I was not the most popular person at my school but I had plenty of friends and was liked by peers, teachers, etc. Strivers were not.

And replying to another post - the parent who said they didn't like the strivers at Stuy didn't say it was too hard for their child. Just that they didn't want their child in that type of environment. Huge difference. But again, a striver doesn't get this.

Again, so much defensiveness and unwillingness to read/listen. Seems like we have touched a nerve with all of the strivers here![/quote]

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