How do the local students feel?

newyorker22
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:13:51 +0000

I can speak from one person’s experience—my husband grew up in Andover and is an Andover High grad. He said that they never envied the PA kids, but sometimes felt sorry for them when they saw them at the grocery store, ice cream shop, etc with a teacher driving a bus. (you know, the teachers sponsor weekend trips and drive everyone in a van) apparently to the local kids they thought the PA kids seemed sort of sad doing their errands with a teacher rather than their mom. That is just his feeling on it–probably wrong., but certainly nothing he envied.

From my husband’s perspective, he was the captain of the high school football and basketball teams at Andover High, but knew he would never have been able to achieve that at PA because of the post grad kids. He was accepted at Princeton and attended, and also felt that he would have never been admitted there from PA because of the more intense competition. So, overall, he has no jealousy of PA, and never really interacted or knew any of the kids there, nor did his siblings. I think that high school kids are usually too involved with their own lives to really care too much about the kids at a rival school.