NCS and St. Albans misconduct

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's also a gift for girls at NCS; maybe the community will be more aware of the challenges they face?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


Maybe it's also a gift for girls at NCS; maybe the community will be more aware of the challenges they face?

+1

-2 for setting the worst possible example for how to deal with an issue; hysterically, anonymously, and without the facts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Maybe it's also a gift for girls at NCS; maybe the community will be more aware of the challenges they face?

+1

-2 for setting the worst possible example for how to deal with an issue; hysterically, anonymously, and without the facts

But you haven't seen it. No one who has seen it is saying it was hysterical and it is precisely because it had facts the the schools shut it down. The only real question is whether anyone brought these issues directly to the schools and if so what was their response.

A lot of institutions mishandle these issues but they do so in their own way.

[Anonymous]

Change was never accomplished by cowards.

[Anonymous]

If STA boys are so truly awful, why do NCS parents allow their daughters to spend time with them?

[Anonymous]

14:06 do you have a daughter? Tell her to stay away from STa boys!

[Anonymous]

But they still have to see them in class. Time for that arrangement to end.

[Anonymous]

On the flag day comment, about how the school rewards some of the worst socially behaved. Happens every year at my son's (former) DC private. Scholar awards go to the families who are quiet, artistic awards go to known pot heads and children of staff, graduation speakers are kids of parents who openly allow drinking in their NW basements...sounds like it is the same at all privates. Of course terrible stuff goes on everywhere, private or public, but the privates do a better job of completely turning off kids who play by all of the rules and provide the test scores and GPAs they like to advertise to prospective families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If STA boys are so truly awful, why do NCS parents allow their daughters to spend time with them?

Um ,maybe because a bunch of them live together as brothers and sisters? It's not like these are different universes. In many cases, same parents, same upbringings. The schools are different but that's because the cultures are different.

This whole thing seems blown way out of proportion. STA guys in my experience tend to find many of the NCS girls kind of snarky and are more interesting in dating elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

STA and NCS are simply examples for everyone --this article should begin a real open dialog among heads of schools and parents across the city. The fact that each Head of School wrote the letters they did to an entire class (which I agree with posters why restrict it to one single grade) speaks to something serious, and it could have been predicted these letters would see the light of day (the public). There are many factors at play here that encourage the worsening/dangerous social lives of these 13-17 year olds, one of course is social media. Two, lazy entitled parents. Three, and this may be the most important factor --$$. Privates lose more and more prospective students to improving public and charter options, and they need to hang on to their big donors at all costs, even if their home and their child hosted the last dangerous gathering. Issues have been reported to admin at different DC Privates, kids have fled with breakdowns, and the administrations are still more interested in the bottom line and protecting their reputations.One day a scandalous law suit may expose the heads of the schools who protect the wealthy trouble makers . But first the victims need to be able to feel safe and understood. I hope an NCS girl is brave enough to publish some of the google-doc (without names).

[Anonymous]

The biggest factor at play here is the aggressive often violent serial materials available free to anyone, including boys, via the internet. That material is setting the frame of reference for kids today. You can wish otherwise, but your head is buried in the sand.

[Anonymous]

18:04 -- are you a parent? do you have no authority of your child's online life? do you know how to hit the "history" button? or would that be a violation of your child's "privacy" (safety). so my head is so not buried in the sand, i'm ready to rock and roll, even if that turned my own up in a less than flattering light. best lesson they would ever learn. any more questions? or do your kids pay the Spring/Verizon/Other data bill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:04 -- are you a parent? do you have no authority of your child's online life? do you know how to hit the "history" button? or would that be a violation of your child's "privacy" (safety). so my head is so not buried in the sand, i'm ready to rock and roll, even if that turned my own up in a less than flattering light. best lesson they would ever learn. any more questions? or do your kids pay the Spring/Verizon/Other data bill?

Not PP but teens know many ways to get around parental prying eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Change was never accomplished by cowards.

Are you calling the leadership of both schools cowards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

-2 for setting the worst possible example for how to deal with an issue; hysterically, anonymously, and without the facts

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that "hysterical" is a particularly inapt thing to say about a discussion of these problems.