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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry but everyone needs to stop scapegoating these issues on the Chevy Chase Club. There are members at STA just like there are at many other schools in our area. The vast majority of STA parents are not members and there are tons of uber wealthy parents at STA who are not members. There may be Chevy members you don’t care for or agree with politically, but there are also very nice families who you would like and agree with. To blame all of STA’s issues on a handful of club members is ludicrous and absurd. STA’s issues run much deeper and are the result of an entrenched culture of elitism, privilege, and competition they foster with their messaging. It is also the result of admissions and who they prioritize. Sure they have been working on prioritizing diversity, but they also prioritize wealth, ability to donate big $, and connected families. These two priorities have eliminated the middle ground population and created a dichotomy of have and have not. Then you throw in the constant message that your the best of the best and it creates the culture we are seeing. There is an underlying level of competition, especially among the parents. Whose child is truly the smartest, the best student, the best athlete, the most talented, the most popular, etc. The pressure is real for a lot of these kids and they’re pushed by their parents to perform. We pay $50k a year for you to be at this top school that we got you into and you need to succeed and achieve. The reality that no one wants you to know is that the majority of these boys are no more gifted intellectually or academically than the majority of boys at other schools in our area. Boys at STA are equal to boys at Prep, Landon, Maret, Sidwell, GDS, St. Anselms, etc. They are normal boys, some are brilliant and super talented and others are normal above average to average kids. It’s the same at most highly competitive schools in our area. The difference is this culture described above of constantly being told they are the best of the best and better than everyone else, the great divide in social economics (no middle ground/have and have nots), the constant stress to achieve, and the competition especially among parents which translates to kids. It’s a pressure cooker academically, socially, financially, athletically, etc. And guess what, it’s boiling over.[/quote]

No one is scapegoating the CCC, but your interpretation of this thread as doing so is revealing. Of course not all of the jerks in dc belong to the ccc, but many people who belong to the ccc are jerks. Not all trump supporters scream "build that wall" around minority students, but all the students who did so are, to our knowledge, trump supporters. Neither ccc nor trump supporters are fully explanatory of the issues that are going on, but they're not uninvolved. So I guess in a way we agree--this is way bigger than (but not exclusive of) the ccc and trump supporters.

p.s. I'm a republican. that's different. [/quote]

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