Which of the top area high schools have the nicest kids?

[Anonymous]

Are there schools that have a reputation for being a nice, chill place to go to high school? Places where competitive outspending and garish displays of wealth are considered faux pas rather than varsity sports? Is there an academically excellent high school that doesn’t come with all the BS, and instead manifests a culture of kindness and decency?

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

St. Anselm’s.

Unfortunately, there’s no analog for girls.

[Anonymous]

This thread is going to dissolve into people throwing out a school and other people saying, “no those people are awful” and it’s going to turn ugly.

I’m going to dispute the question. I’ve lived here my whole life and met many kind and accomplished people from all sorts of different private (and public) schools. I don’t agree with the premise that there is some group of schools where the “bad” people go to.

There are different cultures at different schools and different types of people may fit in better at one school than another. That’s reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is going to dissolve into people throwing out a school and other people saying, “no those people are awful” and it’s going to turn ugly.

I’m going to dispute the question. I’ve lived here my whole life and met many kind and accomplished people from all sorts of different private (and public) schools. I don’t agree with the premise that there is some group of schools where the “bad” people go to.

There are different cultures at different schools and different types of people may fit in better at one school than another. That’s reasonable.

+1

Also, it’s both a subjective assessment and can vary widely by the dynamics and kids in any given grade within a school, and even the same grade can change over time as kids leave/join.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is going to dissolve into people throwing out a school and other people saying, “no those people are awful” and it’s going to turn ugly.

I’m going to dispute the question. I’ve lived here my whole life and met many kind and accomplished people from all sorts of different private (and public) schools. I don’t agree with the premise that there is some group of schools where the “bad” people go to.

There are different cultures at different schools and different types of people may fit in better at one school than another. That’s reasonable.

THIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. Anselm’s.

Unfortunately, there’s no analog for girls.

I was going to say nope, but I actually kind of agree with this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. Anselm’s.

Unfortunately, there’s no analog for girls.

I was going to say nope, but I actually kind of agree with this post.

I agree. Culture of kindness, though I did hear there was one covid-admitted class that has been atypical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. Anselm’s.

Unfortunately, there’s no analog for girls.

Especially the lack of "competitive outspending and garish displays of wealth" -- the monks set an example of monastic simplicity, so garishness sticks out like a sore thumb.

[Anonymous]

Burke is pretty good. Not perfect, of course (who would be?), but pretty darn good.

[Anonymous]

#schooldoesnotexist