Best schools for quirky kids?

[RogersParkTransplant]

Originally Posted by caroline2

Good point; I agree that shunned is too strong of a word, I just spoke too quickly. I guess a better way to put it would be simply to say "liberal HSers are more likely to be in the majority".

I agree with this as a general point, but I've also heard some rough stories from Pitt undergraduates about some pretty harsh bullying, and there's one district in particular that always seems to come up. I don't actually think it's truly about liberal vs. conservative, or about the color of their hair dye or anything like that. I think it's mostly about money, at least as far as I can tell from their stories.

[lesetlo]

Originally Posted by eschaton

It's also worth saying having been one of those kids when I was younger (and hell, having many friends who were like this) it's very rare that a "normal" socially popular kid decides to act like this when they hit adolescence. Generally speaking teenage freaks were nerdy children, who realized at some point that they wouldn't ever be accepted by the popular crowd no matter what they did, so they might as well have some fun in life. Thus it's not like they're willingly choosing to be a target, and thus deserve what comes to them. Instead their asserting the degree to which they don't give a flying eff about impressing anyone.

Pretty much. As much as appreciate 8_years' very sensible suggestion that if people would just try to be less different they would not get bullied, that's not always a viable option. So, yes, we are taking the radical approach of loving and supporting our kids as they are, instead, and trying to find a less hate-filled and judgemental social climate. Honestly the majority of the adults I like were freaky kids, so it's not the kid's own qualities that I'm worried about.

Thanks for the suggestions. I think we have a plan.