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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are wrong and your friend is right.

the I've got mine attitude and who cares about other kids is insanely disordered.

You need to do some serious introspection and perhaps some therapy to understand why you are so incredibly selfish.

Did you also go to a very highly rated public school because being selfish is definitely a bi-product of segregation.[/quote]

Good grief, what an idiotic post. Telling OP to get therapy and then tossing out the dog-whistle re: racism? You're trying to stir the pot, PP.

Fail.

OP, the basic issue is: Friend has a job that she does not leave behind when socializing. The job causes her to stay on her soapbox even when the topic is not one that others are up for discussing.

Does that sum it up?

Drop all the thoughts about how good your schools are (and I agree, public schools can and do serve many kids very well, but not all). Make this super simple: It's about how a friend cannot leave her work behind when socializing. How to handle that? Always see each other when there is something else to focus on, like an activity or outing. (If it's over Zoom, stop trying to "catch up" and instead play a Zoom trivia game with your larger group of friends etc.). If people start talking about schools, which are after all on everyone's minds right now, then either steer things back to the activity or other stuff, or bow out. "I've promised Kid we'll do X in a few minutes so I'm heading out."

I'm sure your friend does great work and does see a lot of families that are screwed by the public schools. But her application of that to all public schools everywhere as being horrible is not realistic. And her insistence that private is better is very grating; not everyone has that option like she does.

Still, she isn't going to change, so I'd start deflecting to other topics you do have in common. If you don't have a lot else in common....I'd start seeing more of other friends. [/quote]

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