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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"If you don't like it, you should go. You'll be happier in the long run."

Keep repeating this. It makes everyone love us that much more...[/quote]

It was meant sincerely, not snidely.  I would not keep my child at a school I didn't like.  How could all that negativity NOT rub off on the child?  To not like his school?  Not like his education?  Not like the community?  Not like the leadership?  To feel so much stifled anger and frustration that one feels the need to act out and vent on an anonymous message board ABOUT his school?

If you were my friend, I'd tell you that seriously you should go - go somewhere else where you're more happy.  This amount of complaining (and it always sounds like the same voice) isn't healthy.  Neighborhood school, OOB, other charters, private or parochial, move to the suburbs - I'd do any of those things before I kept my child at a school I disliked.  Because if you feel this badly, there's [b][i]no way[/i][/b] you can keep it under the radar of your child indefinitely.

Inevitably, he's going to end up disliking school in general - never having had the experience to understand that your hostility is very specific.  (Or even worse, he could find out that your hostility [i]is[/i] very specific; then one day when he's older and wiser, he'll wonder why you couldn't find a way to "rescue" him.  He'll read about the single-parent mothers who moved back in with their parents, or took two jobs, or moved somewhere new, all so that their children could get the education they wanted, and it will dawn on him that you didn't love him enough to make those kind of sacrifices.)

You can tell him that you had the fortitude to bitch anonymously though.  Maybe that will count for something?[/quote]

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