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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Behind the back and - per the post that started this whole 50-page Thread of the Year - spoken to students to their faces. [/quote]

Exactly. What you think and what you say to someone's face are two very different things. Yet so many people here fail to understand that. The stupidity and lack of decency and class of so many people here is off the charts.[/quote]

The students deserve some grace because they’re 17/18 and many are facing disappointment unlike any they’ve experienced before. They’re kids.

But I find it hard to believe any of us parents would walk up to someone we work with who was promoted “unfairly” in our minds (when we weren’t) and tell them they didn’t deserve it/only got it because of x, y, z reason. Or if they did, I find it hard to believe that results in anything remotely positive.

These are hard lessons at a young age. But they’re important ones - for these kids and for us. [/quote]

Everyone agrees that the kid was (a) truthful and (b) rude. The thread is so long because every time someone says that the kid was rude but you should give him grace anyway, someone else jumps in to say no, do not teach your child to be gracious, this friend must be punished and shunned. [/quote]

Nope. Not at all. The kids shouldn't have said it. The kid who got in should just ignore them. The kid who got in should not feel any guilt about being a legacy. But a lot of posters here that they should have a complex because they are a legacy. Which is not OK. And they won't get over that. And they have sidetracked a conversation which should have been about the inappropriate comments by the friends and the appropriate response (which I agree is to just ignore it) into a debate about legacies. Because people have major complexes about legacies and think that every single legacy has no business getting in and they are all mediocre and nepo babies.[/quote]

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