Her Daughter Told Her Friends She’s Taking A Gap Year, But She Corrected Her Daughter In Front Of Everyone By Saying She Failed High School And Can’t Get Into College

This mom has an 18-year-old daughter named Dai, who she knows is very intelligent, but she says Dai is also pretty “lazy.”
She and Dai live in New Zealand, and you have to complete 3 entire years of tests in order to pass high school and qualify for college.
During Dai’s first 2 years of testing, she was doing wonderfully in an academic sense and was in the top 5% of her class.
Dai began slipping, though, and she just received an email stating that Dai will not be passing her senior year of high school and she also will not be eligible to go to college.
She couldn’t help but be furious after she read the email, and it dawned on her that Dai went from the top 5% of her class to the last 5% percent of her class.
Several days ago, she and Dai were spending time with some family friends, and a lot of Dai’s friends from high school were there too.
Dai’s friends were chatting about what they were going to do for college, and Dai brought up that she was going to take a gap year.
Dai mentioned that she was planning on spending her summer working as a camp counselor, and she overheard Dai say something about developing her confidence and independence.
“This is when I piped in,” she explained. “I said that Dai was only taking 2 years off as she didn’t actually pass high school and therefore wasn’t able to go to university. I then stated how the mentioning of 2 years was manipulatively stated, as a 2-year wait would allow her to go to university through Adult Entry (despite failing high school) and was therefore not a choice she made.”

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“I then looked at the younger kids in the room and made a mention about how this would be them if they didn’t get their (stuff) together, and continued on Daia’s path of being a pathetic, disorganized, and ungrateful teenager. Dai started crying, which she never does, so I felt a little bad- but then realized she bought this on herself. As a final statement on the topic, I said that she can’t just lie to everyone about her future plans because she’s embarrassed of the consequences of her own actions, if she didn’t want to be embarrassed she shouldn’t of ended up in this situation.”
Yesterday evening, one of the moms of the teens who heard what she said sent her a message wanting to invite Dai to spend a week on vacation with them.
This mom suggested that Dai looked as if she could use a little getaway and that after the exam results had come back, this mom picked up on Dai looking extra down.
She honestly doesn’t even know what Dai’s exam results are, and she can’t even bring herself to look at Dai without boiling over with anger. She did say yes to letting Dai go on a trip with this mom, but when this mom arrived at her house to get Dai for the trip, she was shocked by what this mom said to her.
“When she came to pick her up, however, she had the audacity to say I needed to let it go and think about if it was the right decision sharing her personal information with the others,” she said.
“She said she was ashamed on my behalf before abruptly leaving. I don’t believe I did anything wrong, as it was wrong of Dai to lie about the reasons behind her future plans (when she needs to own up to it). However, the comment from the other parent took me by surprise.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to call out Dai in front of everyone. What do you think?
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