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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAAS parents have convinced themselves that their kids are somehow smarter, kinder, more intellectual and generally more academically elite than their other independent school peers. When you question why these "special boys" from "The Abbey" are going to Xavier, St. Johns, Fordham, Loyola and Providence College, you'll be lectured on no one really caring about academic prestige.  You'll then be told that the economic diversity of the student body means that kids go to school at less expensive places. They usually don't choose to include that the elite schools that they pretend to not want provide merit aid, financial aid and scholarships. So, there's that. [/quote]

Why does this school bother you so much? It's a tiny, humble school in NE with less than 40 kids per class. How could it possible rile you up so much?[/quote]

Neither the school nor the kids rile me up. The parents suffering from delusions of superiority over schools with infinitely superior outcomes is the comical part. [/quote]

NP here. It is possible that “outcomes” that Abbey parents value are different from yours. As an alum of one of the most elite universities you undoubtedly would deem “worthy” who regularly interviews applicants for admission, I would much prefer my DC exude the kindness, humility, and inner intellectual curiosity and discipline that SAAS tries to value over the bratty elitism, animosity, and entitlement that you seem to want. Sure, the Abbey could do a better job marketing its unusual curriculum and student body to some of the more elite schools, and that is a criticism I have heard even from some off the parents who are friends there. The value of the education is nonetheless exemplary and the socioeconomic diversity brings an education that is much needed in this world today. [/quote]

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