St Albans for black students

[Anonymous]

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WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

What really needs to happen is that it is banned from rap music. This is why all the white kids are saying it.

What really needs to happen is that white kids just stop saying it.

its a 2 way street

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

What really needs to happen is that it is banned from rap music. This is why all the white kids are saying it.

What really needs to happen is that white kids just stop saying it.

its a 2 way street

No it really isn’t. White kids should stop saying it regardless of what anyone else does.

[Anonymous]

If a word has so much power, no one should say it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a word has so much power, no one should say it.

The poster never explained what happened in the situation. Did the student say it out loud casually or did they actually call an African-American kid the N-word? Both terrible scenarios and NOT excusable but one is obviously much more severe. Previous poster please explain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA's issues can not be blamed on Trump or any other recent history. Their issues have been around far longer and people have been trying to get admin to pay attention, but everything is always quietly swept under the rug or dismissed. Lots of issues with racism, anti-semitism, and sexism hiding behind the curtain and kept private. Just look at the 2015 yearbook issue, the 2014 inappropriate sexual conduct towards NCS students, and the varying racism issues including students asking for a BSU and being denied. These are just a few issues that have leaked out, imagine what else is behind the curtain.

This. I graduated from NCS in 2004 and my brother graduated from STA in 2010. Lots of "boys will be boys" and sweeping racism, misogyny, homophobia under the rug. The few minority kids with low HHI from my brother's class left during/after lower school. My brother and his friends had a "rape is funny" group on Facebook. They called their black friend "The Darkness." My brother is still kind of a shit head but my parents did not raise us like that. I wish I could remember more incidents but I've moved on to other things. Hoping things have changed mightily since our time on the close but...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

I was thinking the same. Why doesn’t Saint Albans have a paige? It concerns me that black boys and men who have attended Saint Albans are silent on the issue. Even National Cathedral has a paige.

Not only is Saint Albans missing, Landon doesn’t have a page, Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, nor Saint Anselms has a page. I’ve seen all boys schools from other areas. Why are the students at the local boys schools silent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

I was thinking the same. Why doesn’t Saint Albans have a paige? It concerns me that black boys and men who have attended Saint Albans are silent on the issue. Even National Cathedral has a paige.

Not only is Saint Albans missing, Landon doesn’t have a page, Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, nor Saint Anselms has a page. I’ve seen all boys schools from other areas. Why are the students at the local boys schools silent?

IG is for girls, PP. You didn't know that? I'm not at all surprised - no self-respecting boys' school student would ever start something like this on "Insta."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

I was thinking the same. Why doesn’t Saint Albans have a paige? It concerns me that black boys and men who have attended Saint Albans are silent on the issue. Even National Cathedral has a paige.

Not only is Saint Albans missing, Landon doesn’t have a page, Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, nor Saint Anselms has a page. I’ve seen all boys schools from other areas. Why are the students at the local boys schools silent?

IG is for girls, PP. You didn't know that? I'm not at all surprised - no self-respecting boys' school student would ever start something like this on "Insta."

Not true. Plenty of boys and masculine men sharing about this topic on Instagram and other all boys schools have pages. Woodberry Forest is one example.
Are the boys at the local schools afraid? Are they forcing black boys to be submissive to White Supremacy at the local all boys schools? What is going on?

[Anonymous]

Actually, some of these schools have taken significant steps to recruit, admit, and retain black students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. Such efforts concerning black students are substantially greater than they are for low-income Latino students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, some of these schools have taken significant steps to recruit, admit, and retain black students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. Such efforts concerning black students are substantially greater than they are for low-income Latino students.

There is no competition with Latino students and Latino families and I wish them much success, however many of them don’t suffer anti black racism. Their struggle is different than black descendants of slaves who built this country. Who were slaves for over 400 years where men, women and children were raped, killed, starved, forced to work for free. Put in concentration camps. Then after slavery had entire communities wiped out such as in Elaine, Rosewood, Tulsa, Wilmington and more. Blacks are still being mistreated based on the fact that they have darker skin.
It’s nice that they may allow us to go their schools, but not if we have to continue to be mistreated as we have been the last 500 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a family with a younger boy at STA I pray that the new headmaster stands up to the families whose children have shown this abhorrent behavior with a zero tolerance policy. He and the rest of the administration can't just "talk the talk". This kind of behavior cannot be swept under the rug.

From the STA headmaster: "A Commitment to Change"
https://www.stalbansschool.org/news-detail?pk=1349365&fromId=213574

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, some of these schools have taken significant steps to recruit, admit, and retain black students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. Such efforts concerning black students are substantially greater than they are for low-income Latino students.

There is no competition with Latino students and Latino families and I wish them much success, however many of them don’t suffer anti black racism. Their struggle is different than black descendants of slaves who built this country. Who were slaves for over 400 years where men, women and children were raped, killed, starved, forced to work for free. Put in concentration camps. Then after slavery had entire communities wiped out such as in Elaine, Rosewood, Tulsa, Wilmington and more. Blacks are still being mistreated based on the fact that they have darker skin.
It’s nice that they may allow us to go their schools, but not if we have to continue to be mistreated as we have been the last 500 years.

Ma'am with all due respect, you have truly lost you mind. Get help. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, some of these schools have taken significant steps to recruit, admit, and retain black students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. Such efforts concerning black students are substantially greater than they are for low-income Latino students.

There is no competition with Latino students and Latino families and I wish them much success, however many of them don’t suffer anti black racism. Their struggle is different than black descendants of slaves who built this country. Who were slaves for over 400 years where men, women and children were raped, killed, starved, forced to work for free. Put in concentration camps. Then after slavery had entire communities wiped out such as in Elaine, Rosewood, Tulsa, Wilmington and more. Blacks are still being mistreated based on the fact that they have darker skin.
It’s nice that they may allow us to go their schools, but not if we have to continue to be mistreated as we have been the last 500 years.

There has been much progress since the events you describe that people of all races have contributed to. I hope this brings you comfort PP, even as there is more work to be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

I was thinking the same. Why doesn’t Saint Albans have a paige? It concerns me that black boys and men who have attended Saint Albans are silent on the issue. Even National Cathedral has a paige.

What concerns me is That it seems sta students and alumni don’t feel free to speak out. There are stories everywhere, at every school. No way sta (or anywhere) is immune. But at other schools, there seems to be room for people to speak out, as evidenced by the Instagram pages. The faculty and administration seem to be doing all the right things, but the fact that there is no page for STA makes me worry that students or alumni fear being rejected by their peers or their alumni network if they say anything.

When you’re a teenager, it’s hard to be accepted. Even harder if you’re a minority. So I wouldn’t blame any student for staying silent if it meant losing his friends. I do, however, find it very, very troubling that the culture At sta might be such that those students would be right to worry—that they would lose friends if they spoke out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

WaPo has an article on Black students experiences in private schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-private-schools-know-what-its-like-being-black-on-their-campuses-will-they-do-what-they-ask-of-their-students--learn-and-do-better/2020/07/01/b9f2de2a-bbca-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

The link for GDS is https://www.instagram.com/blackatgds/
Any for St Albans ?

STA has numerous positions where students elect the leaders: councils/prefects, athletic teams, vestry. Black representation over the last 20 years for that is a good indicator especially on prefect. When I had a kid at STA AA students had a range from wealthy on down just like everyone else.

I was thinking the same. Why doesn’t Saint Albans have a paige? It concerns me that black boys and men who have attended Saint Albans are silent on the issue. Even National Cathedral has a paige.

What concerns me is That it seems sta students and alumni don’t feel free to speak out. There are stories everywhere, at every school. No way sta (or anywhere) is immune. But at other schools, there seems to be room for people to speak out, as evidenced by the Instagram pages. The faculty and administration seem to be doing all the right things, but the fact that there is no page for STA makes me worry that students or alumni fear being rejected by their peers or their alumni network if they say anything.

When you’re a teenager, it’s hard to be accepted. Even harder if you’re a minority. So I wouldn’t blame any student for staying silent if it meant losing his friends. I do, however, find it very, very troubling that the culture At sta might be such that those students would be right to worry—that they would lose friends if they spoke out.

Or if there’s something about all boys’ schools that promotes silence. Troubling either way. .