<p>This is nonsense.</p>
<p>We do not know who the person who wanted to purchase the drug was and where this person had gone to school. CRLS is indeed an urban school and a very diverse one. But that fact does not make it a den of crime or produce a higher incidence of druggy students. Some acquaintances of mine looked at private high schools for their daughter. At one they toured, the whole place reeked of marijuana.</p>
<p>There is no data that suggests that CRLS graduates admitted into Harvard are performing less well than students admitted from other schools. I happen to know several of them, and they have all performed admirably. Besides being admitted to Harvard, CRLS graduates have been admitted to Stanford, Yale, Columbia, etc… where they are neither legacies nor connected to these universities in any way. The fact is that CRLS is bi-modal, with students whose parents are university professors (Tufts, MIT, Harvard, BU among those I know), lawyers, engineers, architects, and so on, and students who come from recently immigrated, limited English background as well as low-income local families. Chances are the CRLS graduates who are admitted into top colleges come from the first group. To suggest that their background is problematic is risible.</p>