Anonymous
10/02/2023 21:19
Subject: I hate Homecoming time of year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Focus on helping your son get friends!! Parents can and should do a lot.
+1000
How do you help a 15 year old boy make friends? He is not into theater or robotics - often recommended on here but not his thing.
Anonymous
09/30/2023 08:32
Subject: I hate Homecoming time of year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hmm. I feel like homecoming is barely even a thing now. My kids don't really care about it.
This. My son is like why would I go to that? My daughter went as a freshman and thought it was awful. I wouldn’t assume his friends are lying. And get off social media.
+1. Life is better without social media.
So much better w/o social media. Although, I guess DCUM is pretty much my social media
You don't need social media. Our school is having a "Homecoming Ask Week" next week.There is a "best poster" contest. So now the schools are encouraging it. UGH.
UGH. that sucks. Sometimes I wonder if anyone in these school administrations is capable of critical thought. Our school just had twin day. It's a girls' school and kids are chronically excluded from cliques, etc. Why on earth do you have to have twin day?
I am by no means a helicopter parent or an "life has to be easy for every teen" parent or any of this. But come on. Why of all the fun things in the world that a school could do, do they have things that are ripe for excluding kids on the fringe?
And my kids are popular. The schools could do better.
DP. They’re not incapable of critical thought, they’re immoral. I’ve threatened to sue a few times, and they magically learned how to do better.