[quote=Val]
I'll submit that maybe they felt the same way when you told them that, for example, the good grades their kids got "didn't mean much," especially in the context of your reports that, once homeschooled, your son starting working years above age-grade level. Etc.

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The thing is, I wasn't talking to the parents of the cousins when I said what I said about the school and grades. At that time I didn't realize that in our small town what is said to one person is said to all. I was a city girl with no experience with small towns gossip.