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Jeff perhaps you should lock the thread or maybe even delete. A family and a CHILD are being discussed. Many in the community know them very well. Most of what has been shared is inaccurate and mean spirited accusations. STA isn’t diverse and there are some real issues at this school. Look at the teacher diversity ... Perhaps if the school had more conversations about diversity and it was truly evident in the curriculum the students would have known this was inappropriate behavior. Diversity is more than numbers ... it’s understanding bias and being cultural competent. If you’ve read the STA Diversity issue of the student newspaper you’d know there is work to do at STA.
Praying for all involved and the entire school community. Hoping the entire school community will look for opportunities for growth through this difficult situation. Jeff I appreciate your consideration! |
Anonymous
I know a holocaust joke, I learned it from a Jewish friend. I'd never say it, but it's in my head. I can imagine a teen a little less careful than I was could have shared that joke, not realizing that perhaps it was ok for a Jewish person to share it, but not for someone not in the in-group. Another person upthread mentioned kids accepted into Harvard who had their admissions revoked due to sharing inappropriate content on social media. There are things we may have done and said as teens that would be equally horrible, but they weren't shared in a lasting manner. And we have the luxury of pretending that we would never! Except given the number of teenagers who do, and teenagers raised in a more enlightened environment who do, make me suspect we're doing an awful lot of whitewashing of our pasts. That said, I think a private school is within its rights to expel a student for something of this nature. Just like a school could expel a student for "just" smoking pot or sharing it with a friend. It might seem minor, but there are standards these schools are expected to upheld, and it is a privilege to attend. Students who are asked to leave generally end up just fine. I'm aware of a student who has been asked to leave two different private schools for behavior issues, and is in a third one. He's doing just fine now, but he seems to be struggling a little bit more with growing up than some of his peers. |
Anonymous
First of all its prefects (not prefix) and second no, this is not the vibe my son has ever experienced amongst his classmates and peers. He is in an upper grade and has been at STA for a long time. He says this boy and his "group" in Form III (9th) are a problem but they are not representative of the larger student body. He does say that this problem group tends to be very pro-Trump and its part of the problem. Trump is not a conservative. He is not a true Republican. Trump is a populist and populist beliefs, as expressed by his followers including these boys, are ugly and hateful. These folks want things to go back to how they were in the 1950s. |
Anonymous
Amen to the bolded. That conversation — and how to incorporate values into the curriculum — should be fine at Beauvoir. Despite the “Life Rules,” so many students of color have to deal with offensive statements, behavior, and exclusion. If you are lucky, racist statements are met with, “That’s not nice/respectful,” but there is no real discussion of why or efforts to teach about racism, bigotry, and prejudice. |
Anonymous
| As a Jewish person I can say definitively that the most annoying thing about this whole situation is the “The problem is a lack of diversity at STA!” ranting of the sanctimonious GDS troll posting here |
Anonymous
| ^^^ begin at Beauvoir, not “be fine at Beauvoir.” |
Anonymous
| As well as the “I’m better than everyone else at STA because I’m liberal!” ranting of a random STA parent (they can’t all be gems). |
Anonymous
Actually, at least one of the people complaining about the lack of diversity is an STA parent: me. Diversity is not having butts in seats or having a certain number of various minorities. If you definition of diversity goes beyond that, STA is not very diverse. I’d characterize its approach as the melting pot approach. People from different backgrounds can come, but then you have to fit into the dominant, white, WASP-y culture that is STA. That’s not genuine diversity. |
Anonymous
Actually, one would expect, in an all-boys prep school, that the percentage of the L representation would somewhat approximate zero. |
Anonymous
Ha Ha Ha |
Anonymous
| My kids are at STA and we definitely see a lot of diversity, respect, and tolerance notwithstanding the traditional nature of the school. We are also unfamiliar with any “Trump set.” In fact, the strong, negative reactions from many STA parents to the kids from afar who showed up at the flower mart wearing Trump gear underscores my years-in-the-making perspective that the politics at STA are largely pretty liberal. |
Anonymous
| “Afar?” |
Anonymous
@ssholes isn’t a very nice word |
Anonymous
| i know the details of what happened |
Anonymous
| but its a personal matter between the family and school and should not be discussed over the internet where everyone can read it |