in your mind, is STA worth it for high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current Director of Admissions at STA is Dr. Joseph Viola who is/was the school's on-site counselor/psychologist.

What is your point? Is this a negative or positive?

I think the poster was just stating a fact as Tyler was mentioned above.

Got it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current Director of Admissions at STA is Dr. Joseph Viola who is/was the school's on-site counselor/psychologist.

What is your point? Is this a negative or positive?

It seems pp was just answering a question about who was the ad now.

Dr. Viola is great.

He is great although he does not follow the mold of the two prior sporty/preppy ADs. Given his background he might be especially good at filling the classes with very empathetic and compassionate boys.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. Spot-on assessment, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current Director of Admissions at STA is Dr. Joseph Viola who is/was the school's on-site counselor/psychologist.

What is your point? Is this a negative or positive?

It seems pp was just answering a question about who was the ad now.

Dr. Viola is great.

He is great although he does not follow the mold of the two prior sporty/preppy ADs. Given his background he might be especially good at filling the classes with very empathetic and compassionate boys.

This is a good thing.

Everyone is happy for those 8-10 boys who were recruited. The other 70-75 boys are pretty great too.

Boys and men of character are important. Dr. Viola cares about that, which is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current Director of Admissions at STA is Dr. Joseph Viola who is/was the school's on-site counselor/psychologist.

What is your point? Is this a negative or positive?

It seems pp was just answering a question about who was the ad now.

Dr. Viola is great.

He is great although he does not follow the mold of the two prior sporty/preppy ADs. Given his background he might be especially good at filling the classes with very empathetic and compassionate boys.

This is a good thing.

Everyone is happy for those 8-10 boys who were recruited. The other 70-75 boys are pretty great too.

I agree. The Class of 2021 is a great class, with so many examples of well rounded, grounded and kind young men. Although if memory serves there were more than a handful from this class who were booted for a variety of unbecoming reasons.



Boys and men of character are important. Dr. Viola cares about that, which is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Incoming 9th grade class does not seem to be overly sporty at all. No lax players that I can tell. Lots of academics.

Huh? A few of them have already been told they will likely start varsity for the next 4 years. One of them is the best player on a great travel team (not Next Level). Beyond that, they are the only lower school class to beat Mater DEI in hoops (you should have seen Coach Green) in years and their best player was playing up a year and winning the MVP with the older class. If they had all played together, they would have been able to beat anyone. There are kids whose parents played professional sports in the class. When they played football with the class ahead of them, the 25s started over the 24s at every spot that matters. I think you are confusing classes.

No, I'm talking about the NEW 9th graders. The incoming 20 boys. They are not a super sporty group.

Maybe because that is already a very athletically gifted class so maybe the new admits brought in other attributes. Plus you may not be aware if kids are athletically inclined especially if you are just judging them by whether they play lax or basketball. STA just won the IAC tennis championship.

[Anonymous]

The school values boys who excel in a variety of ways. I wish certain tunnel-vision parents would value these many different and important talents too.

[Anonymous]

How could you possibly know the profile of all the new incoming 9th grade boys??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school values boys who excel in a variety of ways. I wish certain tunnel-vision parents would value these many different and important talents too.

NP. To be more precise, the school values individual boys who themselves excel in a variety of ways. The football player who also sings in the chorale for example. Or the tippy top GPA kid who also stars in the musical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like it or not, St Albans pushes the ideal of the scholar-athlete. One without the other is, well, not the intended product. It’s been that way for generations. It will remain that way for generations.

Unless you are a Chinese princeling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like it or not, St Albans pushes the ideal of the scholar-athlete. One without the other is, well, not the intended product. It’s been that way for generations. It will remain that way for generations.

Unless you are a Chinese princeling

Wtf are you talking about

[Anonymous]

Ah, I see they deleted the racist post about the boarding students as well as the posts calling out the racism. Retained the “princelings” nonsense.

Before this gets deleted, let me just say to that poster: Cut it out with your awfulness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see they deleted the racist post about the boarding students as well as the posts calling out the racism. Retained the “princelings” nonsense.

Before this gets deleted, let me just say to that poster: Cut it out with your awfulness.

All the Chinese boarding students in my sons class were wonderful interesting boys. One played football and crew and one was a wonderful artist and tennis player as well as one of the top academics. I enjoyed getting to know all of them and they added some unique culture to the mix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see they deleted the racist post about the boarding students as well as the posts calling out the racism. Retained the “princelings” nonsense.

Before this gets deleted, let me just say to that poster: Cut it out with your awfulness.

I think they deleted their comment when others said they could easily identify them because apparently they speak like this in person too and I think the comment about them talking like that at the golf club also made them nervous although admittedly it could be one of about 8 parents there that speak like that openly about minorities, Jewish families etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, I see they deleted the racist post about the boarding students as well as the posts calling out the racism. Retained the “princelings” nonsense.

Before this gets deleted, let me just say to that poster: Cut it out with your awfulness.

I think they deleted their comment when others said they could easily identify them because apparently they speak like this in person too and I think the comment about them talking like that at the golf club also made them nervous although admittedly it could be one of about 8 parents there that speak like that openly about minorities, Jewish families etc...

It's not hard to narrow it down, that's for sure.

Admissions team, pay attention. These people are giving the school a bad name