<p>nikkistar,</p>
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<p>No, you don’t “have to,” but you’re making the claim. It’s a big board – you may be reading different posts than I am or have, or you may be reading posts differently than I am or have. So: if you find posts with the attitude you claim exists, please use them to back up what you are claiming is so prevalent on the board. It’s not so prevalent that everyone is in agreement with you, so the burden of proof of your claim is on you. </p>
<p>Your claim: “In many of the posts parents are very upset because their kids want to go to a state school instead of an IVY or Liberal Arts of the parents choice. Or freaking out because although their kids are taking AP classes they only have a 3.8!!!”</p>
<p>How about pointing to just, oh, say, three posts from three different parents who are upset (very or not) because “their kids want to go to a state school instead of an IVY or Liberal Arts of the parents choice” and three posts from three different parents who are “freaking out because although their kids are taking AP classes they only have a 3.8.” If these attitudes are as prevalent as you say they are, surely it wouldn’t be hard for you to find six posts which support your claim, right?</p>