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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's rather creepy that so many people stalk these instagram accounts.  Not sure what the point is if you don't know the kids.[/quote]

It's really sick.  Then, they publicly comment about the kids and disparage some of them.  If a kid did really well, especially so.

My kid had no desire to post.  I noticed most kids did at his private HS and asked him if he was going to and he said 'no'.  He did get into an Ivy, but he really isn't into social media. He never posts anything about himself.  Maybe it's from the time they were a young age I told them it's best not to.  He will congratulate other friends.  He did post a few of his best friend's commitments.

I have only followed my kid's HS account. And I'm happy and excited for all of them.  I also have another kid who will be applying to college and it's good to see the trends, schools that particularly seem to like our HS. But, no, I'm not coming on bragging about our school's acceptances (like that insufferable GDS person last year) or trolling Instagram looking at other HS, etc.  If I want to know where one of my kid's friends is going, I ask him.[/quote]
DC is such a strange place. My oldest child’s high school (when we still lived in Texas) has these accounts so students can see where their upper class men friends go. It was celebrated at the end of the year and parents gathered during PTA to do a college-based secret Santa exchange in May.

I find it so sad here, because any college or future opportunity is seen as cutthroat and competitive. Why anyone is commenting on another persons child and where they go to college without the words “congrats” and “that’s so exciting” is a really sad personality quirk here that I dislike.[/quote]

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