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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know where I come out on this issue, because it is nuanced and complicated. But I am absolutely certain that most of you are bitter cowards, so insecure about your own choices and what may come that you find nothing at all odd about posting anonymously on DCUM.

[list]No one makes you feel any way; that's on you. If Joe or anyone else judged you for sending your kid to a charter and it bothers you (still) many years later then the issue is you, not him. If you are certain of your own choices then what one man had to say should have washed off you like water off a duck's back.[/list]
[list][b]You are all kind of missing the point here; he's acknowledging that this is a hard choice[/b]. That it forces reconciliation of public policy vs reality. That it requires preteens to help make real world decisions that have possible lifelong impacts.[/list]
[list]I can't tell if you are bothered by his lack of certainty? His certainty? It's confusing.[/list]
[list]I am not an elected official. I don't have to put myself out there and let the likes of you (and me) take shots, or act like there are easy answers, or have my preteen kids used as checkers pieces in a silly forum. People who do are to be commended. You know what elected officials don't usually worry about? People who sit at home in judgment on anonymous chat boards. You people aren't going to run against them. Or vote. Or canvas for better candidates. Your howling at the wind doesn't accomplish much.[/list]
[list]I'm sure Joe appreciates you all helping him to understand what his daughter thinks. Or helpfully suggesting that she should be allowed to participate. I'm certain that the only feedback he received from his daughter was the two lines in the Post article. And that it hasn't occurred to him to consider (or discount) what his daughter thinks. Thank heavens for you insightful people.[/list]
Most of the people posting on here are trolls; I get it. You people are amusing. But there are people chiming in here who truly think they are adding something to the discussion, or providing unique views or considerations to the Wheedon family. I feel sorry for that group of people. [/quote]

I don't think most are trolls on here. Several of us have commented about Joe and Amy's words and disdain after we were faced with the same choices, just with older kids and before they did. IMHO we aren't being any harder on him than he was on us.[/quote]

Right, it is a hard decision.  But when lots of other people were going through the exact same thing, he did not acknowledge that it was a hard decision and was fiercely critical, both generally and specifically to particular people, who wrestled with the hard decision and came out the way he didn't prefer - at least for other people's kids.

If he had always acknowledged it was a hard decision, people wouldn't be annoyed now.  [/quote]

To PP (and others with the same juvenile response). First, I repeat my position that your insecurity is about you, not him. I send my kid to a charter school. I don't care a bit what others have to say to me or about me. I make the best choice I can for my kid and my family. If Joe made you feel bad or insecure or inadequate or guilty then that's on you, not him. But what amuses me most is the idea that he was mean to you and made you feel sad or insecure (not that anyone can make you feel any way if you don't let them) so your answer now is to try and make him feel bad? Because he's a hypocrite? And you didn't like it, so you're going to treat him how you feel he treated you to teach him a lesson? Or to justify your previous choices to him? Sincere question: why or how did this man get so far in your heads that you cared what he said or thought, and that you have carried these feelings for this long? I feel sorry for you all, sincerely.[/quote]

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