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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Just like any other part of the visit, they look for the interaction.  Is the boy a good sport?  Is he engaged?  I've heard that you can bribe a kid to be best behaved when you walk in and shake hands and look them in the eye and introduce yourself blah blah but the "real" kid comes out during this kind of play.  So my advice to any of you actually applying, make sure that you tell your son to be a good sport and a good friend and a nice kid during the game too!!

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Actually, I think they play it just so the kids burn off some energy, which is fine. I'm pretty sure they don't do it to see if kids are good sports--or if they do, it doesn't work any better than what other schools do to try to ferret out the same information. I don't think anyone would argue that, as a group, the kids at STA are nicer or better sports than the kids at any other school. I'm not saying they are meaner than other kids, either. I'm just saying that if crab soccer were the best means of separating nice kids from nasty ones, we would expect to see STA have a disproportinate number of nice kids. It doesn't.

And can we please try to avoid equating a punishing homework load with being academically rigorous? Having fourth graders spend hours memorizing state capitals and birds isn't rigorous, just time-consuming.[/quote]

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