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[quote=Anonymous]I will say as an alum of Latin that this is not new. Disregard for disenfranchised students has been going on for 25 years and likely longer. Latin, as someone pointed out, has many (but not a majority) of families that have a lot of money and I will add they expect things to go their way either by dint of their donations or the prospect of their donation. If their kids are bullying others, many parents will defend their bullying children reflexively as opposed to getting the full picture. Some of these families explicitly expect an Ivy League acceptance as part of the return on investment, even though it's not really up to Latin.

For DCUM, I'm going to say something controversial: Latin has more money in terms of overall net worth of their families than any school in DC. It's not NYC prep school level, but it is close.

The calculus for the school is skewed because of something I called "money derangement syndrome" or to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald "the rich are different than the rest of us." The administration hasn't handled their families very well ever, because they don't really understand the incentives of these hyper-wealthy families.

The school will need to have a reckoning with its hyper-wealthy section of its clientele, but my prediction is that the administration are too scared for their careers to have that reckoning. [/quote]

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