[Concern ■■■■■](Concern ■■■■■ - RationalWiki) is concerned.
I started reading this post but, man, I can’t believe some of the insanity I’ve read on here. I don’t blame the parent who posted – I blame his or her upbringing for creating such passive-aggressiveness and, dare I say, sanctimoniousness. I happen to work in academia and am shocked by some of the stupidity I see here regarding “stupidity” and “self-hatred.” It’s especially bad in this post, where the poster condescends to explain why other people’s priorities, goals, and expectations are misguided. Any teenager entering the hyper-competitive world of college preparation and applications naturally feels some anxiety because it is without question one of the defining moments of one’s life, but reading this post would make a kid who feels “stressed out” feel like crap. In fact, this post is so demeaning to any kid not preternaturally calm and self-possessed that I can only imagine the blow to a kid’s self-esteem if he/she reads that he/she is full of “self-hatred.” And this post’s perception of CC participants in general is so warped that I wonder where he or she is getting his or her info. I mean, some of it is so off the mark that I wonder if the poster is the parent of a rival applicant just talking smack. It seems that even when talking about earnest, hard-working, ambitious teenagers, the “Interwebs” rears its ugly, anonymous head. I’m glad my students don’t have to rely on an adult like this poster for their motivation and guidance. Wow. Just wow.