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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any impressions of 2021?  My son, god willing, will be a member of that class next year as an entering 9th grader.[/quote]

The 2021 class seems to be made up of a nice group of kids.  The parents as a whole are also not of the insufferable variety that we have encountered with another son's class.[/quote]

One person's perspective.  Here is mine.  There is a core group of pretty boy, jocks and popular boys.  They are friendly enough.  But if you are not athletic, do not expect to break into the inner circle.  Things like parties and dances are just starting up for this grade. So the tension below the calm surface is about to erupt in spades.[/quote]

Here's another perspective.  The classes are small.  Even in upper school, there will be fewer than 90 boys in a graduating class, in my son's class, substantially fewer than 90.  If only the "pretty boy, jocks and popular" boys hung out together, you'd be talking a group of no more than 10 in each class.  That gets boring fast.  Because of the small numbers, and more to the point, because of the sense of brotherhood that STA instills, high school cliques like the ones you may have experienced simply do not exist as firm lines of demarcation between the boys.  Within the class, and really within the school, the lax bros for instance embrace the less athletic mathletes.  It is as advertised, a "brotherhood" for life.  That alone leaves me comfortable in the fact that we are spending a boatload of money for this opportunity.[/quote]

I find the truth somewhere in the middle.  There's a lot of interaction and relationships that cross over various activities, and the family-style lunch with assigned seatings helps with breaking up the sort of school-day cliques that are featured in Breakfast Club type movies or many of our own memories.  But it's still high school.  It's easier to be "popular" if one is a handsome athlete.  But that's not the only path to being respected and liked, by any means.  Good place overall.    [/quote]

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