“Phillips Andover’s endowment is head and shoulders above the next closest, St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire”
???
I know they are focusing on Massachusetts schools, but the national “rankings” that the article references are wrong because they are conveniently excluding Exeter at #2. It’s just pure laziness.
Or the author went to that lesser other Phillips school.
Exeter has a larger endowment than Andover, but in today’s environment it may not be a good thing in some peoples eyes.
Actually the richest school should be Hershey school in PA. Probably richer than the next 20 schools combined.
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Which school is that? Curiosity piqued.
Milton Hershey School.
15B. Very nice.
But sorta different considering it’s tied to a publicly traded company. Money is money though.
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The article contains a chart listing the MA schools in order. Next to each, in parens, is its national ranking.
Correct. They have found several ways to show/illustrate inaccurate information. Have to give them credit!
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Just another troubling story concerning an over- priced NYC day school . The stories never seem to end, year after year . The NYC schools may run out of rich parents sooner than I thought and the music will stop. Where do these schools find these teachers, staff and speakers ?
Wake me up when a legitimate news source covers this story.
It rather shocks me that a person interested in top prep schools would read, and provide links, to a clearly-biased-againat-private-schools rag like The New York Post (or any news organization under the same corporate umbrella) over and over and over again.
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They took the Project Veritas video seriously in Greenwich.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/CT-officials-to-investigate-Greenwich-school-17413238.php
I posted The National Review’s story on this 10 days ago.
What factually about the reporting do you question?
I agree it reads as an opinion piece (and a biased one at that) but the video certainly should raise concerns and merits a meaningful response from the school. The words spoken and the sentiments conveyed are what they are.
The fact that other news outlets aren’t covering it doesn’t mean it isn’t news worthy. Just imagine if the word white or boys were to be changed in the following transcript and imagine the entirely appropriate public outcry that would follow…
“Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who feel very entitled to express their opposite opinions and just push back. There’s a huge contingent of them that are just horrible. And you’re like, ‘Are you always going to be horrible, or are you just going to be horrible right now?’ Don’t know…I think they need to go. I think they’re really awful people…They’re so protected by capitalism. It makes me sad.”
I would think we could all agree that a school administrator generalizing students as horrible based on their skin color or gender is disgusting. Potentially using their influence to impact these students experience seems news worthy.
The person quoted is not some low level employee. Jennifer Norris is the Director of Student Activities at Trinity
“I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can. And now that I’m in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.”
“I don’t hide how I feel, but I can’t pretend I’m [not] promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing.”
Trinity is a prominent NYC prep school. It seems curious to me as to why aren’t other news outlets covering it?
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An alternate take . . . despite a minority of vocal detractors and the drum-beat hyperbolic coverage by the rag-sheet NY Post, most parents are happy with the education offered at these schools, and there is no imminent danger of them “running out of rich parents.”
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I merely point out the fact that over time the poster has posted several links to several different events at NYC prep schools. For that poster, the solution is simple; they don’t have to send their kids to a NYC prep school.
And while I recognize that few, if any, media outlets report without bias, I also find it interesting that when I google a particular news story to see where else it was reported, the only ones that come up are the Mirror, the Guardian, National Review, Project Veritas (how ironic) and the like.
Yes indeed. And in my mind that begs the question of why.
I have no dog in this fight as my future kids aren’t going to Trinity Prep, so I don’t feel the need to dig deeper into a one-sided story.
And to be crystal clear, I would raise the same objections if an event was only reported in far-left-wing media
So I pose the question to the CC community and given this thread is titled “Prep Schools in The News” I think it appropriate.
Given Ms. Norris’s apparent animus and activism against white male students and conservatives would you be comfortable sending your kid to Trinity if she is allowed to remain in her senior role as Director of Activities?
Please remove from your consideration the news source or poster and instead focus on her actual words.
I read the quote. I agree with it. The contingent of “entitled rich kids who don’t care about anything” you tend to often find at prep school is mostly made up of white boys (usually those who are quite athletic), in my experience. That’s not to say that all of them are—but there is a pattern.
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I appreciate your candor. Do these “entitled white male athletes”, share any other common physical characteristics? I ask because it would be a logical conclusion that when you encounter these “people” you do so with a set of preconceived expectations and treat them in a certain predetermined manner based upon their physical description. I believe there is a word for that.
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