I am probably being PFBish, but this year my little girl and all her friends had to take some kind of test, a Cognitive Ability test, as far as I could tell from the practice one she brought home, it is like a Mensa puzzle test. The teacher had told me Rose had scored 'off the charts', but the results were months and months after the test. Up until now the other Moms at the school have been happy to chat away, parents whose kids took it in previous years etc and since a high proportion of the catchment area are affluent middle class intellectual parents, a high proportion of the kids are earmarked as gifted. The test just helps the school identify who to include in the gifted classes.
We got the results and my little girl did the best in the school, and is 99th percentile nationwide. I was very proud of her and posted a 'proud mommy moment' status on FB so my family and friends in the UK would know the good news - can't phone the UK and I was happy. I noticed none of my local friends from the school 'liked' my status, even though they like all the other stuff especially negative things about the kids getting upto naughtiness.
Then, at the school, they all seem to be blanking me. Or at least, they change the topic around me and certainly none of them are talking about the test or the gifted program like they did before the results came back. Yet I know their kids will likely all be in it too - and can't see why I should be excluded as though I did something wrong - I haven't mentioned Rose's score to any of them personally, so only the ones on facebook would even have known.
Am I being unreasonable to find it hurtful that not one of them said 'congrats' or something? It isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but before I was one of the crowd, and now it all seems a bit uncomfortable... also, I always take time to 'like' any of their kids achievements as it is natural for a parent to be proud of their kids achievements, right? Jimmy made the football team? Awesome news! Jasmine won a spelling bee? We all know she gets her smarts from her mom!
So why won't they reciprocate?
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flyingspaghettimonster · 12/05/2011 13:30
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