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[quote=Anonymous]You can't win though. My kid is currently at a school with very little intensive parenting. Guess what: it sucks. Kids are poorly behaved because they don't have good role models and their parents make no effort to correct bad behavior or encourage things like kindness and empathy. Test scores are abysmal and a lot if kids don't try at all. There are even bright kids I know to be string academically and they will denigrate studying as a "waste of time" because their parents do not emphasize education. The kids eat endless junk-- parents will send in a bag of Doritos and some fruit snacks and that's lunch. And that's a parent who bothered to pack a lunch. The school lunch is free but awful. A small group of us who actually give a damn petitioned to change vendors last year it was so bad and it's moderately better but still regularly fails to involve a single vegetable.

We are obviously planning to leave as soon as we can and I know it will be hard to adjust to a school where most parents are "intensive." But at least those parents care. It is really hard to parent a kid when so many if their classmates' parents don't give a damn and don't try.

Intensive parenting is stressful and I try to be balanced but I don't think people understand how bad the alternative is.[/quote]

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