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Sympthsical

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8. It feels like watching terrible helicopter parents
Sat May 11, 2024, 08:47 PM
May 2024

You know the kind. They have a child who is completely out of pocket, and they make no effort to get their unruly kid under any kind of control. Then, after the kid causes nonstop chaos all over the school, the teacher and principal finally take action.

Who's the bad guy? The principal and teacher, of course! Their precious angel should be celebrated at every turn. But that vile administration is being deeply unfair and just has it out for a Johnny who recently just finished up smearing shit across the blackboard. Then they show up at the school board meeting insisting people should be fired and replaced. Their parenting, the tolerance and indulgence for their child's awful behavior, is not even a whisper of an element in their self-awareness or thinking.

That's the kind of delusion this stuff reads like. And then, after they've allowed all the damage to be done - and precipitated much of it - they'll come around later with, "Gee, the school isn't as good as it used to be . . ."

And then you're kind of sad that these people managed to reproduce, and that their awful kid is going to be unleashed upon the world to bother everyone else with his dysfunction. He'll be everyone else's problem.

That precious angel.

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