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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, your perceptions are weird.  “Inner circle”? Sycophants? I’m sure there are popular kids in my kid’s class, but I would never notice that level of dynamics, or think to describe it that way.[/quote]

You seem unnaturally triggered. [/quote]

I'm not the poster to whom you're responding but the "triggered" comment is just silly. The response above is mine too: OP seems to be seeing dynamics here worthy of a soap opera. Asking in all seriousness and not snarkily, OP: Do you know specifically of parents who themselves are sucked up to by other parents so that kids get to be associated with the popular teens? Where does the intense focus on inner circles and sycophants come from? I can see that there can be preferential treatment in sports (which should be a big so what if your child isn't in sports) but otherwise -- do you mean that the same parents of the supposedly popular kids tend to lead things at the school? That may be, as another PP said, a factor of outgoing adults who also have outgoing kids.

Does your "quirky" kid engage in quirky-kid things with others? Our high school has stuff ranging from a creative writing club to a cheese club to robotics to...anything you can name. There's plenty for the quirky kids to do to find their people. If your child's HS doesn't have that and has a strong "typical popular teen" vibe instead, your teen could use strong encouragement to find activities outside school that match his or her real interests. If you're mostly sad that your child isn't doing the popular-kid sports or clubs or social stuff outside school -- help your child do the things that DO interest his or her "dorky" self. There are other dorks out there proud to fly the dork flag and they invite other kids to their social stuff too! [/quote]

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