Holton on TV

[Anonymous]

looks fine since it is on their website and they crushed it. This whole thread is ridiculous. I don't know why Holton "boosters" are surprised. Get used to the fact that he majority of people on this website are city folk who hate the suburbs and the suburban schools. Not sure why they have such a myopic view. I find it disheartening that our the residents of our nations' capital are so close minded but that's how it seems on this forum. The pp is right, move to another list serve if you are going to spew pride and positivity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain Kayla Moffett '14, and her teammates Megan Horey '14 and Glenda Smerin '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Huh? You wanted an excuse to post it here, so you ask an inane question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The highest score on the DC version of the show was 815 and Holton's 805 points is the second highest to date.

Holton posted a high score because the other two schools sucked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain Kayla Moffett '14, and her teammates Megan Horey '14 and Glenda Smerin '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Good Lord. Did someone from Holton truly write that piece? What a bunch of biotches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain Kayla Moffett '14, and her teammates Megan Horey '14 and Glenda Smerin '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Good Lord. Did someone from Holton truly write that piece? What a bunch of biotches.

I don't care what Holton girls tell themselves in their own school newspaper. I do wonder why the heck stuff like this gets posted, with a flimsy cover of "how's the writing?", on DCUM.

Good lord, if every private school in the area starts posting blurbs about their teams' triumphs and victories over lesser schools, this forum would become completely useless. "Well Burke won a debate? I'll raise you a football victory for Field! Take that!!!!" No, please, make it stop.

[Anonymous]

Hey PP don't read it. Easy enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain Kayla Moffett '14, and her teammates Megan Horey '14 and Glenda Smerin '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Good Lord. Did someone from Holton truly write that piece? What a bunch of biotches.

I don't care what Holton girls tell themselves in their own school newspaper. I do wonder why the heck stuff like this gets posted, with a flimsy cover of "how's the writing?", on DCUM.

Good lord, if every private school in the area starts posting blurbs about their teams' triumphs and victories over lesser schools, this forum would become completely useless. "Well Burke won a debate? I'll raise you a football victory for Field! Take that!!!!" No, please, make it stop.

It wasn't written in a school newspaper. It was written by a couple of Holton Moms, and edited/published by the school. Pathetic biotches who totally dissed those two Virginia public schools.

http://www.holton-arms.edu/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=1727

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey PP don't read it. Easy enough.

Hey PP, when you post stuff like that piece, the rest of us have step around it like dog doo on the sidewalk. You're even admitting this when you tell us not to read it. How can you possibly defend this?

Why not, you know, teach your dog better behavior? Did you ever consider that people come to DC for actual facts instead of PR fluff? That nobody wants to see DCUM turned into a shallow marketing machine for one school or for many schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey PP don't read it. Easy enough.

In caps, so you understand:

NOBODY BESIDES YOU WANTS TO SEE DCUM BECOME A MARKETING MACHINE FOR HOLTON. IF IT BEGINS WITH HOLTON, PRETTY SOON WE'LL HAVE A BATTLE OF THE PR PEOPLE FROM EVERY SCHOOL IN THE AREA.

There, was that clear?

[Anonymous]

your post is illogical. There are a lot of posts I avoid. I don't read things about Sidwell - and there are plenty. I don't read posts about SILs, though I have some. I don't care about breast feeding any more. I avoid anything that says TMI in the title. But those posts aren't like dog doo to me. I just don't look. On DCUM, you don't have to avoid things - you have to CHOOSE to consume them. Just don't click on anything that says Holton and you'll be fine. Unless you get some manner of pathetic jollies from bashing a decent school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:your post is illogical. There are a lot of posts I avoid. I don't read things about Sidwell - and there are plenty. I don't read posts about SILs, though I have some. I don't care about breast feeding any more. I avoid anything that says TMI in the title. But those posts aren't like dog doo to me. I just don't look. On DCUM, you don't have to avoid things - you have to CHOOSE to consume them. Just don't click on anything that says Holton and you'll be fine. Unless you get some manner of pathetic jollies from bashing a decent school.

Once more with feeling: nobody is bashing the school. People are bashing the boosters.

[Anonymous]

Seems to make your night to bash whatever you think you are bashing, so go for it. I will go back to World Series game 1, which has featured a number of truly embarrassing plays by the St. Louis Cardinals. I am sure Holton softball could do better. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain [ ]'14, and her teammates [ ] '14 and [ ] '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Good Lord. Did someone from Holton truly write that piece? What a bunch of biotches.

I don't care what Holton girls tell themselves in their own school newspaper. I do wonder why the heck stuff like this gets posted, with a flimsy cover of "how's the writing?", on DCUM.

Good lord, if every private school in the area starts posting blurbs about their teams' triumphs and victories over lesser schools, this forum would become completely useless. "Well Burke won a debate? I'll raise you a football victory for Field! Take that!!!!" No, please, make it stop.

Interesting. I read this as a poster putting it up as a critique because the article read (to me at least) as crowing rather excessively over the outing. (The word "spellbinding" made me laugh, I'll admit.)

I do wish the person who posted this had redacted the names of the kids, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from Holton's website about their win--what do others think about the way this is written?

At the September 21 taping of “It’s Academic”, Captain Kayla Moffett '14, and her teammates Megan Horey '14 and Glenda Smerin '15 sailed to a spellbinding win over Osborne Park and Park View High Schools. Their score at game’s end was 805 which set a new record for the Holton team and falls just 10 points shy of the all-time "It’s Academic" record. Osborne Park and Park View struggled to stay afloat with totals of 360 and 340 respectively.

Save the one occasion on which Osborne Park hit the buzzer in the final round, Holton did not miss a beat – or a question. To watch as they figured out the question before host Hilary Howard could finish reading it and provided one correct answer after another was truly a sight to behold. The team’s lightning fast reflexes elicited an audible laugh of incredulity from the studio audience at one point in the game as a picture of a Monarch butterfly flashed on the screen, Howard barely had uttered the words “moth and butterfly” before Holton buzzed in and Moffett confidently responded, “Lepidoptera.”

Congrats to these talented and intelligent young women who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to “It’s Academic”. Be sure to watch the show when it airs at 11 a.m. on October 19 on NBC4.

Good Lord. Did someone from Holton truly write that piece? What a bunch of biotches.

I don't care what Holton girls tell themselves in their own school newspaper. I do wonder why the heck stuff like this gets posted, with a flimsy cover of "how's the writing?", on DCUM.

Good lord, if every private school in the area starts posting blurbs about their teams' triumphs and victories over lesser schools, this forum would become completely useless. "Well Burke won a debate? I'll raise you a football victory for Field! Take that!!!!" No, please, make it stop.

It wasn't written in a school newspaper. It was written by a couple of Holton Moms, and edited/published by the school. Pathetic biotches who totally dissed those two Virginia public schools.

http://www.holton-arms.edu/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=1727

The contributors at the end of the article? One is the director of the upper school and the other is a teacher. But I do think the stories on the website are by the newspaper staff.

[Anonymous]

Whoa, this thread is crazy.

You know, don't we all send our kids to private school and pay the tuition because we want them to be around positive peers who want to work hard and love their school? Each of us picked a school we are hopefully happy with and wanted to stay away from public schools that label smart achieving kids, nerds. Yet here is a mom or a bunch of moms that have their panties in a bunch because there are some people posting positive comments about a school. Really? You seem like the bullies and Debbie downers we want to keep away from our kids in the first place.

This is an anonymous forum with a million different types of posts. Seriously, it means nothing. Seems like a total waste to bash something like this.