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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If STA wants to be a kind and diverse place they need to stop preferentially admitting the children of VIPs and those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.  It's ridiculous, really.  They keep wringing their hands and speaking about diversity and kindness and inclusion and then year after year they admit the kids of CEOs and law partners and more recently---of Trump appointees--all from a select number of private schools.

They do so preferentially over equally qualified kids from public and equally qualified kids with parents who are pediatricians and journalists and government lawyers.   And then they turn around and wonder, "gee whiz!  Whey is our student body so elitist?  Why are the boys so unkind?".  "Maybe if we had one more diversity chapel we would solve this problem. Yes, let's have one more chapel.  That will fix it!". 
Giant eye roll.

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+1.

I'll add to this by saying that it was a real shock coming from Beauvoir. Beauvoir isn't perfect, but it is quite committed to diversity in admissions (and elsewhere). As one fellow family put it, "the only reason STA is diverse is because of Beauvoir." After fourth grade, admissions at STA is somehow influenced in no small part by the desire by a small set of white, highly conservative families to get their friends in. Not every admit, but a LOT.

I don't know *why* STA perpetuates this disconnect between admissions and all of its overtures to diversity and inclusion. I don't say that just because it makes their commitments to diversity ring pretty hollow and the achievement of their initiatives basically impossible. I say that because it doesn't even seem to add up in a "money talks" way. Some of the very biggest donors to the school aren't in that little group, and we've watched as candidates they've supported get rejected, so it isn't the case that it's this one little group keeping the school's capital campaign afloat. It's not. We've also seen STA reject plenty of diverse applicants who are not lacking in money and/or prestige. I'm not saying only prestigious or wealthy families should get in. I'm saying that EVEN IF that was what was going on, it makes very little sense why STA is still happy to reject wealthy, prestigious diverse applicants, many of whom are coming from elite privates too. It doesn't add up...unless, as we are starting to fear, STA is more interested in being a club for a few families than a school for the best and brightest of all types of boys.

Anyway, OP, admissions is one of the key things, if not the key thing, that has to change for STA to make good on any of its commitments to a more welcoming environment for all students. [/quote]

DP. I remember hearing about kids chanting “build a wall” around a diverse classmate after the 2016 election and worrying about what else was going on. [/quote]

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