Is Westminster School the best school on Earth? STATESMOM returns

[statesmom]

I have a lot to say, don't know if anyone remembers the thread. Let me know if you want to hear from me.

Trump is one of the top reasons we would never live in the US - it was bad last time but I feel very sorry for Americans facing Trump in office again with no option of leaving the country . Hopefully he’ll do jail time instead!

I find it so bizarre that someone is so defensive about decisions they claim to be happy with.

You sound very insecure OP and it's a shame as it sounds like you've worked hard and invested a lot in so many ways.

But still you're not happy and secure, to the point you feel the need to be combative and defensive with strangers online over a matter of days.

And call them insecure.

All very strange.

@statesmom - I am loving the Trumpism! Hilarious!!

You’re embarrassing yourself here.

Maybe find out more about Germany’s post-WW2 stance on military force. This won’t take long to read.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1087859567/germany-military-buildup-russia-invasion-ukraine

Yeah I read it: so what?

Point number one: People in this country would be speaking German if it weren't for the United States.

Point number two: Europe has been a quasi-autonomous American protectorate since 1945. There have been over 100,000 American troops in Wiesbaden, in Aviano, Mildenhall for decades. How many European troops protect America? 0.

Pointe number three: Your article points to Germany rearming only because President Trump forced them to.

Point number four: The Germans are wonderful people, never done anything wrong have they?! If you don't think the Holocaust could happen again in that country tomorrow you are blind.

As my driver was turning off Park Lane this morning, a thought came to me about this funny thread.

All these women who are so aghast that I got a college consultant for my son are total hypocrites.

After all, they are on a thread which talks about one of the greatest benefits one can give one's child: private education.

And then I began to think: did you give your child vitamins? Isn't that a pushy benefit?

Did you read to your child? Get them piano teachers and take them to drama lessons?

WHAT A JOKE PEOPLE!!

We all do whatever we can for our children. Why is the line drawn at college consultants and not, say, soccer camps?

Hypocrites.

I’m afraid you continue to embarrass yourself. As I have a British horror of watching this, I’ll leave you to it.

“As my driver was turning off Park Lane this morning, a thought came to me about this funny thread”

🤣🤣🤣… people
Comedy gold this thread.

As my driver was turning off Park Lane this morning, a thought came to me about this funny thread.

I feel for you being stuck in London, my wealthy friends have headed off to their properties in Salcombe and Rock for the summer.

Umm, OP have a listen to Jordan Peterson, Eric Kaufman etc. Harvard, Stanford etc are screwed - their academic cultures became compromised and are now in decline. What with that & the fact that the States is now becoming hugely politically unstable, many of us in other Western countries wouldn't even step in there for a two week holiday, let alone send our children off there on their own.
You're living in a bubble.

We all help our children as much as we can.

There was a time when I wiped my son's butt. I no longer do that.

There was a time when I helped him learn to read. I no longer do that.

There was a time when I helped him get into college. I no longer do that.

Where is the honesty on this thread if not from me? Any loving parent does all they can to help their child at a certain stage in life (assuming this help does not hinder them in other ways).

The cluelessness and dishonesty is tremendous!

You’re stuck in NY during the summer - why on earth. We’ve escaped from our city to our cottage in The Laurentians.

I actually can't take this op seriously anymore!!😂

Nor me but I think it’s really funny!

It’s a parody I think.

It’s hilarious either way!

Ok ok, I get it. What should we Google to find your upcoming Edinburgh show?

Will anyone else be gutted when it’s full in 10 pages time? 😩

Sometimes I think it really is Trump. The delusion matches.

I'm as real as your left pinky.

It's "snowplowing" to get a US college consultant.

I ask you all: Is it snowplowing to send your kid to private school in the UK?

The high mistress said yes
www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/29/snowplough-parents-risk-children-cope-with-failure-says-top-head

https://archive.ph/7TeqQ

I'm also on the parody side.

Yes I've snowploughed for my kids at times. They went to an excellent private school, I've supported them to do their best in exams and I reviewed my son's internship applications after he'd written them.

But I'm a big believer in you reap what you sow and their success is down to the work they put in, not how much I pay on top of school fees. And that learning to accept 'failure' and celebrating the success of others are an important a skill as any.

What I'm most proud of is that they're able to hold their own in different situations, from the upper echelons to those who come from seriously deprived backgrounds. It's the latter that's the most important to me; the awareness that they've had a very privileged background and being sensitive to those that haven't had the same chances. If my children said some of the things you've said, particularly the lazy and offensive national stereotypes, I'd be utterly mortified and think I'd failed as a parent.

But I think you know that and your only intention is to get a rise.

I mean we all strike what we think our own balance is of helping out our children; this is needless to say.

Now, where is that balance? It is different for everyone. Some people bring the tutors on holiday, do the kids' homework, write his college essays, pull strings to get him his first job, maybe even help him in his career!

Are some of these harmful to the ideal of raising a resilient, nomal, independent adult? To me they are. To many they aren't

There are many people who find it shocking that a parent would send his kid to a private school such as Eton, Westminster, Dalton or Andover. I thinkn those people are nuts.

What "lazy" national stereotypes?

That the Germans have never done anything wrong? course not, wonderful people.

I do think it was a fact for a very long time that the United States paid more to defend Germany than Germans did.

Oh well, you can't say Trump was wrong about Nato. Start paying to defend your own nations, people, and stop free riding on American hegemony. This "lazy" stereotype applies to every country in Europe, bay maybe Switzerland.