lol these kids need new material, “I was holding it for someone” was already pretty old in like 1989 when I was using it
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At least you can see through these. I remember a while back a friend was telling me a her high school daughter going out with some friends and she couldn’t reach her cell because her "phone died’. The way the story was told, it sounds like mom believed it.
she used it herself two years ago the dumb shit
Almost word for word! 
My parents absolutely made a choice to believe my bullshit. The alternative was a much rougher road and they had their own shit to deal with. I thought I was so slick.
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I can understand that. I don’t think that was the case here. Kid is a low maintenance, good kid and Mom doesn’t really have much shit to deal with (I think. I guess you never really know.).
I’d like to think I wouldn’t have fallen for an excuse quite that bad, but I’m definitely scared my kids are going to run circles around me with AI and such, lol. Seems like it’s getting harder and harder to stay on top of every new technology, every app, etc. I feel too old for many of these things already.
Gift shopping for my 19 year old is wild. He just drove home from the college I pay for in the car I bought him and insure. I even paid for the gas! And now I’m supposed to be like “What do you want for Christmas?”
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Jewish family celebrating Christmas is wild to me. Are you the weird one, or have I just never encountered it? IIRC, you’re only half, but I thought you identified as Jewish.
I was raised celebrating both Hannukah and Christmas - my mom was raised Catholic, technically converted, but both of my parents were atheists. We’re not religiously observant Jews at all, and Christmas is much more of a consumerist holiday than a religious one anyway. Seems like it’s pretty common.
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The 2022 National Jewish Identity Survey, conducted by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, found that 28% of British Jews had a Christmas tree at home, with younger Jews more likely to have them than older Jews. 58% of non-practising Jews reported having a Christmas tree while just 1% of Orthodox Jews did.[34]
I guess I just have a bad sample. I know plenty of non-religious Jewish people. I don’t think any of them celebrate Christmas.
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I had a Jewish therapist who at least sort of half celebrated Christmas
It was Alabama though. They probably still lynch you if you celebrate Hanukkah over Christmas
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I’m not sure if we’re doing a tree this year, it’ll be up to the kids. We always had one when they were little, I think I only stopped 3-4 years ago. Chopping down a tree just so it can sit in the corner of my house then get thrown away a few weeks later just seems super-dumb. And artificial Christmas trees were very much on my mom’s list of things that were “shanty Irish” so I can never do that.
I do have a small tree-like ornament holder - I still have some ornaments from when I was a kid that deserve to be displayed once a year.
You and me both. Unfortunately Mme Melkerson will not budge on this issue. And she probably thinks an artificial tree is worse than your mom did.
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My Irish grandmother always used an artificial tree. I was lucky enough to be the “grand” who lived closest to her, which meant I had the excuse to go see her in order to help her put the tree up every year
She called her grandkids her grands
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We went artificial when I was fairly young, probably more to do with my dad’s work schedule (gone a couple of weeks at a time) and his laziness than anything else. If you put enough decorations on them, they look fine.
My daughter is in high school now. Some of the other parents are sending their kids to better A+ rated public choice schools 45m to an hour away.
It doesn’t make sense to me. The local school has a C rating because there are lots of minorities and poor kids. The good school has good ratings because it accepts any kid whose parent will drive there and it is in a wealthier area without minorities and poor kids.
Does just having on your college resume “I went to an “A+” school” mean something? Otherwise, what does it matter? I guess you can make the argument that the A+ school will have better teachers and my daughter has definitely had some really bad teachers at her C rated school, but I honestly don’t know if that is true or not.
By the time your kid is college age the collegiate landscape is going to be a lot different, according to a professor friend of mine, we are in the middle of a big demographic drop off as the number of college age kids is starting to shrink. Being in a big fish in a little pond may play better than being an average kid in a nicer pond…
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Yeah my impression is that there’s lots of contradictory factors. Like elite unis will both look for stars at underprivileged high schools AND give credit for going to a top high school
Also seems like it’s an area ripe for lots of bad advice on admissions strat even from people who work adjacent to it, like worse than pre-sabermetrics baseball
So basically who knows, and good luck!
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Same boat. I have 2 and neither will be that grateful either. Mind you I wasn’t at their age also, 
Welp, early decision results came out today and it looks like these numbers are going to be extremely relevant to my interests.
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