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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need a "come back"? Do you need a "gotcha" to feel better about your choices? [/quote]

So the OP should just sit with the insult in the face of rudeness?[/quote]

It's not really an insult, just an observation. And it's not an incorrect one. Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable. [/quote]

I may think you’ve gained weight. Observed it, if you will. Are you uncomfortable if I point it out? It’s not wrong. Maybe it will help you?[/quote]

That's a really bad analogy. OP chose to spend the money to get a certain outcome. Her friend didn't need to spend the money. It's more like if OP had said "I took Ozempic and lost 30 pounds!" and her friend said "I ate sensibly and exercised and lost 30 pounds too!" It's not a slam at OP for using Ozempic...it's just an observation that the friend got there another way. OP clearly feels sensitive about using Ozempic (ie private school) and is reading things into her friend's comment. That's on her. [/quote]

I will never understand how some people think that the point of 13 years of education is to end up at certain college for four years, and the college you get into is the score at the end.

Seeing the largest part of a kid’s education as it means to an end is just sad.

OP, this is the parents’ cope  and there’s nothing you can do about it. Emotionally they have to believe that their little darling could not possibly have missed out on a single thing by going to public school, and therefore that the only measure of success is the name on your college diploma.

All you can do is smile and say, “How wonderful! I’m so so excited for both of them.” Their coping mechanisms are not your problem. [/quote]

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