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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15-year-old DS is in flux. He's about to enter HS.
Kids he grew up with in elementary and middle seemed to have splintered into two camps -- kids who are sneaking out, vaping, defacing property (seriously, two kids he knows well were just arraigned in court for this), or else have super niche interests like D&D, which don't appeal to my kid.

I am not saying my child is an angel but he's really not interested in staying out til all hours and vaping (and I'd like to think we've dissuaded him from this anyway), but he's also not into the things that the non-party kids enjoy. The result is that he's struggling to find kids who are on his wavelength and he ends up spending a lot lot of time when he's not at sports practice hanging out alone.

Can anyone else relate? Does this improve with age?[/quote]

NP. Honestly? Catholic schools.

I say this as an atheist who pulled my kid from public to Catholic. [/quote]

Catholic and private schools have the worst fake bullies.  The ones nice to adults and terrible to peers.  So many cliques.  No way.  My poor daughter was traumatized [/quote]

+1 you’d be surprised what trouble the private school kids get up to but their parents just cover it up much more quickly [/quote]

+2  Private school just means richer and/or that they have needs that can't be met in a normal public school environment that pushed the parents to shell out for private.[/quote]

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