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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the outplacement person was rude to begin with, it's easy to understand why PP avoided her. [/quote]

Agreed. I am having a hard time trusting someone who doesn't return emails, ket alone overtly rude.[/quote]

I'm a third person who doesn't think it's so cut and dried.  Yes, of course the PP who urged us to listen to advice from the outplacement folks had a point - they can provide valuable info on your kid and on other schools.  Of course they can.

But that PP painted an extremely rosy picture about the outplacement person always being on your side, always working for you, and always providing advice that's in your best interests.  Nor does that PP's interpretation do anything to explain what happened to OP.  They didn't return OP's calls?  It's not just a question of trusting their "advice."  There is apparently NO ADVICE TO IGNORE.

Also, that PP looks very biased (not to mention like a total jerk) when she makes jerky statements like this one:  "well then you've been a fool to leave your kid in that school for so many years. And maybe you shouldn't be so confident of your judgment re what school's best in this next round."  She's said this 2 or 3 times.  Jerk....  Hey, I can totally see a parent thinking the school administration is wonderful until exmissions time.  Does this jerky PP think that some schools are just plain rude to parents throughout the elementary years, so that it's immediately obvious when you have a bad school?

A more realistic, less naive, view is to listen to your OD while understanding the OD's motives.  This is the view that helps OP - not some jerky statement about how she should take her OD on faith because obviously she makes bad choices.  [/quote]

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