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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you both agree your current school isn't good. Well, you get get offended that she agrees with you.

She doesn't like that people live where they know they don't like the school, then try to work the system to get out of their choice. I mean, that's a fair complaint. She probably should have kept her mouth shut, but I don't think you can really criticize her for that view. [/quote]

OP here. I was annoyed because she was openly rude to me. She criticized my kid's school and then told me she didn't think I should be allowed to use the lottery to try to get my kid into a better school.

You know, the only reason I even said the thing about doing the lottery again next year is because she criticized our school. I actually like a lot about our school and would not be devastated to stay, even though I recognize some of the challenges. But having another parent say, to my face, that my school is bad made me feel defensive. Which is the whole reason I said "Oh, well we might try to lottery in somewhere else if we can. We've heard great things about [her IB school]." So for her to then say that using the lottery to go to another school is selfish.... it was just such a bait and switch, which was annoying coming from someone who doesn't even have kids in the school system yet. I'm generally a very positive person but I was having an off day and running into this [b]rude, entitled person [/b]made it that much worse.[/quote]

The point is she thinks YOU are rude and entitled. You (presumably) didn't pay as much for your house as she did to live in bounds for that school, and yet you think you're entitled to go there anyway. She, on the other hand, paid the price of admission, so to speak, and is miffed that people who didn't think they can just sneak in the back door.
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Alot of people think like this where I live. [/quote]

NP I agree with the other mom! I paid a lot to be zoned to a particular school. I would be annoyed if some middle-class whites parachuted in. If they were poor URMs I would be okay.[/quote]

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