St Albans in the Washington Post ?

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sexist-slurs-and-coded-insults-st-albans-school-2015-yearbook-stirred-outrage/2018/10/03/39c788d0-c4ab-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

This is a disgrace.

[Anonymous]

Damn. 2015 yearbook.

One featured a caricature of an Eskimo and pictures of 15 boys and a few girls. Graduates said the page appeared to suggest that the boys shared one of the girls as a sex object. Elsewhere, there were questionable references to people of various nationalities.

There were also veiled references to oral and anal sex, as well as a page headlined “When Pubes Be Strikin’.” Eight graduates interviewed by The Post, from both schools, cited other graphic and demeaning references, some targeting specific students, within the book.

[Anonymous]

Ironically, the editor of that yearbook also won an essay contest on "moral leadership."

The privileged class just keeps rolling on, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Do you find it a "disgrace" that it turns out STA boys are largely like boys everywhere in the world in that they will make mistakes and be selfish and sometimes mean if they are not under direct adult supervision, or is it a "disgrace" that a once-great newspaper like the Washington Post is stooping to write an article about this incident just to make a guilt-by-association political point at the expense of stupid but not evil teenagers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you find it a "disgrace" that it turns out STA boys are largely like boys everywhere in the world in that they will make mistakes and be selfish and sometimes mean if they are not under direct adult supervision, or is it a "disgrace" that a once-great newspaper like the Washington Post is stooping to write an article about this incident just to make a guilt-by-association political point at the expense of stupid but not evil teenagers?

I was on the yearbook staff at a large and integrated public high school. Not once did someone try the nonsense described in that article. I mean, presumably public school kids know that mocking someone for their race or economic status is both wrong, and likely to earn you a beating. Either way, the idea that a bunch of 17/18 year old men should be given a pass on this kind of thing is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Wow, it was hard to read that this was 2015 at STA and not 1950. The worst part is all of the "wishy-washy" statements of the adults at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you find it a "disgrace" that it turns out STA boys are largely like boys everywhere in the world in that they will make mistakes and be selfish and sometimes mean if they are not under direct adult supervision, or is it a "disgrace" that a once-great newspaper like the Washington Post is stooping to write an article about this incident just to make a guilt-by-association political point at the expense of stupid but not evil teenagers?

I find it a disgrace that you consider this normal behavior for boys everywhere - this is very different than run of the mill, in the moment mistakes. And, by the way, most yearbooks aren't anything like this so somehow others are restraining themselves.

I find it a disgrace that the school and faculty advisor either weren't willing or weren't paying enough attention to intervene before it went to press in the first place.

I find it a disgrace that you think this behavior results from stupidity alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you find it a "disgrace" that it turns out STA boys are largely like boys everywhere in the world in that they will make mistakes and be selfish and sometimes mean if they are not under direct adult supervision, or is it a "disgrace" that a once-great newspaper like the Washington Post is stooping to write an article about this incident just to make a guilt-by-association political point at the expense of stupid but not evil teenagers?

I was on the yearbook staff at a large and integrated public high school. Not once did someone try the nonsense described in that article. I mean, presumably public school kids know that mocking someone for their race or economic status is both wrong, and likely to earn you a beating. Either way, the idea that a bunch of 17/18 year old men should be given a pass on this kind of thing is laughable.

It's like watching tennis with the comments of parents from Independent all boys schools.

Our school is better, elite.
Our school is the same as every other school.
Our school is better, elite.
Our school is the same as every other school.
Our school is better, elite.
Our school is the same as every other school.
Our school is better, elite.
Our school is the same as every other school.

[Anonymous]

I've lived here my whole life and never associated St Albans with character, lol.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from a large FCPS in the 80s. Our yearbooks were filled with references to drugs, sex, and alcohol. No one set of kids is better or worse than the other.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out what goes through the heads of the administrators at these schools when approving the year books.

I went to a small prep school - not in DC - and our Principal was really rigid with what we could put in our senior pages - no initials, no unclear references, no pictures of anyone but classmates and immediate family, etc. I'm sure some stuff slipped through, but generally everything was pretty boring. At the time, I was so annoyed and full of teenage indignation, but now I understsand and appreciate her stance.

[Anonymous]

The article reads like it was rushed out though. I expect STA is relieved the article has so little "dirt."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you find it a "disgrace" that it turns out STA boys are largely like boys everywhere in the world in that they will make mistakes and be selfish and sometimes mean if they are not under direct adult supervision, or is it a "disgrace" that a once-great newspaper like the Washington Post is stooping to write an article about this incident just to make a guilt-by-association political point at the expense of stupid but not evil teenagers?

Essentially what you've said is that "boys will be boys," so you're just normalizing this aberrant behavior. If you had bothered to read the article instead of posting some reactionary comment you would have realized that the reporter refers to the Georgetown Prep yearbook and the Kavanaugh scandal. The important take away is that these racist and sexist attitudes still exist today, thirty plus years after Kavanaugh and Judge were in high school.

[Anonymous]

Tbh the adults at STA in this situation should’ve gotten in a lot more trouble.

[Anonymous]

My kid is at Gonzaga. Just scanned that yearbook and it looks pretty clean by comparison. Guess we made the right choice for all-boys school!