3 ms·

The situation is one that you would expect to lead to sour grapes. The criticism of the school is rather nebulous. Can we at least say that sour grapes does app

• coldtea 11y ago
  I think the main criticism leveled at the school is its failing to take into account their kid's needs and emotions -- and while it's based on their own pain points and their kid's failing (which we could call "sour grapes"), the same approach would lea the school to fail any kid in the same situation. What I took from the article is that instead of those "gifted kids" being given extra care, the children are only given extra curriculum to cover. I'd expect both -- since kids being really bright can be very brittle, antagonistic, alienated etc, and a special school should be expected to take that into account to and help alleviate it. So, while I could subscribe to "sour grapes", my main issue with labeling it as that is that I don't agree with the moral accusation it tags along with it. As in: I think they are justified to feel "sour grapes".