“No daughter of mine is ever going to a fancy private school. She can get bullied for being on public assistance just fine at home, thank you very much.
At the risk of saying something sexist: My relationships with women have taught me that girls in like middle school to high school will really go out of their way to wreck someone’s life, and the ripples go on and on into adulthood.
A good friend of mine was talking with me the other night, and we brought up a fight he got into in middle school. He could not remember the dude’s name and had NO idea why, and they both punched each other in the face. They did not, as the folk wisdom goes, become friends after their fight. But it affected him so little in the longterm that he didn’t remember the who or the why.
Meanwhile, I hear the occasional story, with first, last, and sometimes even middle names about sleights from junior high from my girlfriend. She remembers every moment.
I guess the moral is that girls need to start punching each other in the face. More face punching, less Facebooking. Hey, that’s pretty good…”