<p>In my grade, several of my friends are teachers kids. Most of their parents teach here at the high school while some of them teach at the middle school. Some of them are really cool, but there's one who's not. There's this girl that's been my friend since sixth grade, and she's always been really stuck up and full of herself, but I never noticed it that much until this year. Now that we are in high school and her mom teaches here, she get's whatever she wants, and she knows it. She acts like she's my friend, but she's always competing with me on grades as we both want to be valedictorian. While I don't mind competition, I do mind it when she uses her mom's status as a teacher to check MY grades. Maybe I'm over-reacting or something, I don't know. Also, last semester I had her mom as a teacher, and her mother let her grade my tests and no one else's. That really ticked me off. Bragging seems to be something that's programmed into her. While I think it's great that she skipped kindergarten and all, I don't want to hear about it everyday. She's always putting me down and telling me how much smarter she is than me (which I know isn't true, especially since she said she's only going to take one AP class, which is required to be valedictorian, and she plans to take weight-training twice a year all four years.) I mean seriously, there's nothing wrong with taking a P.E. class every now and then, but she's doing it to help with softball and to raise her GPA as her mom teaches the class. And because her mom is the assistant softball coach, guess who sat Varsity bench this year, and will start next year? She will, over all of the sophomores who are much better than she is. I also know that a lot of people don't talk to me when she's around because they don't want to be around her. Do any of you know someone like this? If so, how do you deal with them? No matter how hard I try, I can't get her to stay away from me or leave me alone. What should I do?</p>
<p>Unless you go to some high school that’s known for absolutely amazing athletics, then her mom likely didn’t really excel in school, and now has to deal with constantly being seen as of lower value or some crap because of her career. Her daughter’s probably grown up extremely conscious of that.</p>
<p>I do know people like that, and I generally just think about their situation, try to empathize, and move on. Whenever they do something that hurts/offends me I point it out, and make it clear that I will not be friends who have persistent, negative effects on my life.</p>
<p>You have to be blunt here. I don’t get why you aren’t just direct with her.</p>
<p>Actually the sports her mom played in high school did fairly well. Both her and her mom are perfectly content with their life. I’m not just saying that either, she is t trying to make up for anything. In fact, the daughter wants to grow up to be just like her mother. Her mom is like a god in her eyes. She will talk crap about everyone elses parents, but if you were to say that you didn’t like her mom’s hair band, she would jump down your throat. </p>
<p>As for being blunt, believe me, I’ve tried. Everytime I try to explain to her though, she either turns it around to something I’ve “done wrong” in her eyes (ex: not sitting next to her in class/ talking to someone else when she wanted to talk to me) or she gets really mad and glares/ignores me for around an hour or so, and by that point I start to feel guilty, so I apologize. I hate it when people are mad at me. Lately I’ve been trying to distance myself from her, but no matter what I do she always finds a way to cling tighter. I just want her to leave me alone.</p>
<p>Why do you care if she thinks badly of you if you’re trying to separate yourself from her?</p>
<p>I really don’t know. That’s part of the problem. I’m the kind of person who wants everyone to like them. I know I shouldn’t but it’s just the way I am. When people get mad at me, I tend to feel really bad and guilty.</p>