Does your child have dental problems? If yes, then your time would be better spent talking to your own dentist/orthodontist than asking strangers on the internet. If no, then your neighbor’s situation has no bearing on your situation, and there is no point in pursuing it.
There are a hundred reasons why kids might take a semester off. Mine did, and it had nothing to do with her teeth.
Obsessing about your neighbor’s kid reason is completely unproductive. If you want to know THAT badly, go ask. Otherwise, get your nose out of their business.
Why not just start a post about unusual reasons kids may drop out of school for a semester or one on allowable reasons students may drop out of school ? I’m not sure why the focus of a neighbor’s child. If your own child has some issues that concern you, why not just bring those up? When it appears that one is purely gossiping, it tends to decrease the credibility of the post IMO.
This reminds me of how salty my Nextdoor has gotten thanks to a post yesterday asking if anyone knew why there were cops and EMTs on a certain street. Someone responded that it was likely a medical emergency (duh!) and to mind her own business. She didn’t take kindly to being told to mind her own business on a public forum, and he said she then shouldn’t have posted someone’s business on a public forum. =))
I think my only issue with this thread is why didn’t the OP take the mom’s answer at face value? The mom gave the answer she wanted the OP to have. If I were the OP I’d be like, hope it all goes well for the kid and leave it at that.
I was not meant to know more, and I’d understand that and be satisfied with the answer.
If it didn’t make any sense to me I might say something like “wow, that sounds serious, is there any way I can help?” and she’d either give me more info and ask for help or say “no, we’re good”, and I’d understand that to mean that it was the end of that conversation, and that I’m not going to understand it fully because the details I’d need to make it make sense are not for me.
@Youdon’tsay we call NextDoor “Crazy NextDoor Neighbor” because of the tirades that explode on it all the time. I’ve taken myself out of any discussions that involve other people’s kids causing destruction, golf carts, and dog poop.
There’s a different fine-line we walk on an anon public forum, versus face to face. We learn about each other through posts, not just what we reveal, but how it’s delivered. (We are what we write.) Some don’t realize the impression they leave. We all share some guilt. But some have odder patterns than others. So yeah, people react.
People regularly ask that sort of question on my Nextdoor. Then someone posted their FB page where they post what’s been broadcast on the police/fire scanners.
(I’m becomingly increasing UNimpressed with Nextdoor…)
It’s an app where you and your neighbors can discuss neighborhood happenings. I’m about ready to dump mine. I’ve done all the filtering I can, but am still getting notifications of dryers for sale. And I’m finding it only adds to my stress level to hear about that red pickup with the suspicious-looking (i.e., brown) driver which is cruising the neighborhood again. Don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it.
I joined my Nextdoor so that I could see the announcement of an event my boss needed me to print (she is a neighbor). What I’ve seen all too often is the type of post mentioned above-in a very diverse area:“Sketchy looking black guy walking on X street,” and “I saw a car driving slowly down Y street, must have been casing houses.” There’s a certain demographic of posters on Nextdoor that is not representative of the local population. Interestingly, I saw an article on a local news site just today that Nextdoor is changing reporting rules to reduce just this type of “crime” reports.
You don’t know everything you think you know about this person’s life.When my daughter was diagnosed with something serious, I wanted to protect her privacy, so I lied when asked about it. I’m sure people wondered why we made the decisions we did for what they assumed was a trivial condition. Your friend may be in the same situation.
Just because your neighbor works for your brother, it doesn’t mean that their business is any of your concern. Whatever story they told you is the one they want you to have. I wouldn’t put anymore thought into it.
I think this is the crux of it, and I think a lot of people either don’t understand the concept or can’t accept that they don’t get to know everything.
I blame the internet. Back in the old days there was water cooler gossip and kitchen table gossip-now a story gets to go worldwide and primetime in an instant.