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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I must say that it's nice that you're getting to practice your 'where is the merit' whining now, so you can repeat it 4-6 years from now when your kids are rejected from college.[/quote]

You dismiss merit? It will be nice when you whine about how your kid can’t handle college and you’ll have to bail him out. Or when he has low job performance and he’ll be moving back in with you. [/quote]

No more like you whine about how the only explanation for your kid not getting in is to claim it’s not about merit. Maybe you should face the fact that he just wasn’t good enough. Your kid getting rejected is not evidence of anything.

And if my kids end up the way you describe? guess what, they’ll own that result. And so will I. I won’t whine about how it must be because my perfect kid was somehow cheated.

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That mom never raged, like you demonstrated.

Not good enough, you winch? Straight A’s. You want him to perform brain surgery?  Your kid gets you to do everything for him. The only thing you have is a connection and you are offended that you know your kid couldn’t get in without that. 
You’re gonna whine when you don’t get your way, Karen. I bet when you don’t get what you want, you say “I’m going to get you fired.”[/quote]

Am I the one whining now? I don’t think so.  Are we supposed to be impressed with straight As in 6th grade? Seriously?

Look your kid didn’t get in. If the only way you can sleep at night is to tell yourself it’s not about merit then go ahead. I’m sure whenever your kid loses at sports you just blame the refs. That’s all this is.

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Your kid couldn’t score in a game without you doing it for him. But you would want him to be picked. I bet you tell the refs “do you know who I am?” [/quote]

Lashing out at me doesn’t get your kid any closer to getting in. Nor does it impact me or my kids in anyway. But it’s surely a sign of how deranged you’ve gotten over your kid being rejected. I mean not even a courtesy WL, just outright rejected. That’s gotta sting.  [/quote]

Have you had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder yet? [/quote]

Where’s your kid going to go to school next year since they didn’t get into STA?[/quote]

It’s “he didn’t get into STA,” not “they.”[/quote]

Yes my mistake. He didn’t get into STA.  Or better to phrase “your son didn’t get into STA” or maybe “your child didn’t get into STA”. Would it be better sounding to say “STA rejected your son”? [/quote]

“Your son” is best option here. It provides the most information in the most succinct manner. Always strive for clarity and brevity in your writing.[/quote]

thank you for the feedback. Would it be better to use "STA rejected your son", to make clear that STA was the one who, in fact, rejected her son? "Your son didn't get into STA" sounds a bit passive.

For the purposes of providing the full picture, would it have also made more sense to say: "STA rejected your son instead of putting him on the wait list"? Is that too much information?[/quote]

To provide full information in the most concise and grammatically correct manner, one might write: STA rejected your son rather than adding his name to the waitlist.   Because, you see, technically it is not the son who is put on a waitlist. It is his name that is or is not placed on a waitlist.

We cannot be too careful about these things.

Sincerely,

Your English teacher[/quote]

Watch out, she’ll obsessively rage at you. [/quote]

Please be more specific in your pronoun usage. By 'she' do you mean the mother of the son rejected by STA? Perhaps you should write, for clarity, "Watch out, the mother of the boy rejected by STA will obsessively rage at you."[/quote][/quote]

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