<p>Anybody following the newest Bravo reality show?</p>
<p>I actually can’t stomach them. I am sure it will be the equivalent to RH for teenage viewers.</p>
<p>Yea. I’m a teenage viewer and that’s about what it is. I live outside the city, so I’m not in the same social circles as those kids, but I do have some friends who I’ve met over the years that go to some NYC privates (Trinity, Dalton, Trevor Day) and they are by far the wildest kids I know. They have the most money and least restrictions. </p>
<p>What parents would let their kids do this kind of show? It’s kind of sad, actually.</p>
<p>I watched some of the first show. I saw a minor talking about how many girls he could have sex with in a month.</p>
<p>I think parents are responsible for doing all they can to protect children from things which could have harmful consequences, immediately or down the road. This young man is way too young to be able to foresee how the permanent record he has recorded might affect his future.</p>
<p>What a curious parenting decision to allow underage offspring to participate in a show like this.</p>
<p>10 minutes was about all I could stomach. Now Real Housewives of New Jersey…</p>
<p>Spidey I am with you, let’s see were the parents living under a rock and never saw any of the RHof OC, Atlanta, NY and NJ? </p>
<p>Running odds the school is going to clamp down, parents of their friends will clamp down and these kids will not be back next yr because the folks won’t want to walk the walk of shame. Then again Paris Hilton probably went to one of those schools, and her folks allowed her to drop out(little known fact she does not have a hs diploma)</p>
<p>I admit it, I watched. </p>
<p>Apparently the kid called PC is the son of someone named Pete Peterson who is well known among people who care more about money than I do.</p>
<p>Most of these kids look and act like their parents are first cousins. </p>
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<p>Yes, it is unfortunate that neither the kids nor their parents had any foresight here. Many of these kids think they are auto admits for places like Harvard and Yale. I don’t think most of them had much of a shot anyway, but now? No way do those places want to accept kids who went on national TV and admitted to this behavior.</p>
<p>One of the schools, Dwight, issues a statement warning parents not to allow their kids to appear on reality tv shows. So they must not be happy with what we are seeing. [Aristo-Crisis</a> at Real ‘Gossip Girl’ School | TMZ.com](<a href=“Aristo-Crisis at Real 'Gossip Girl' School”>Aristo-Crisis at Real 'Gossip Girl' School)</p>
<p>Bravo will probably now go and try to get Gonzaga or TJ in the DC area. These schools are filled with ambassador, politicians children</p>
<p>^-- It will never happen.</p>
<p>Wonder how successful their Ivy applications will be.</p>
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Richard Lawson thinks it won’t be successful. They’ll probably end up in Middlebury or somewhere equally sad.<br>
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<p>and his take on Stuy. </p>
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<p>They were supposed to do the same show here and wanted my daughter to be a part of the show. I said absolutely not. My daughter’s best friend, who now lives in NYC, was supposed to be in the show if it had been greenlit for last year. </p>
<p>For so many reasons this show, while interesting in a way for an onlooker, is not ok for the kids. (BTW, hooking up does not necessarily mean having sex). These kids will do and say things for the camera that they wouldn’t necessarily do in cameraless life…pushing for airtime. And that can be dangerous.</p>
<p>What about the girl who lives on her own with her brother? if you were that much of an idiot parent would you show your face on national television? I actually worked with a girl in NY one summer who was 16 and lived alone in a co-op on Park Ave. Her mother ran off to London with a new love, and Granny lived downstairs in another co-op so “it’s alright”. I felt so sorry for that kid. Wonder what became of her. She went to an all girls’ private school on the upper east side.</p>
<p>I went to college (#1 LAC) with the parents of lots of these kids, and I expect they will do very, very well with college admissions. They’ll have very high SAT scores, tons of “community service” on their resumes, excellent essays (often written by someone else), good counseling from their GCs, high grades, speak a couple of languages, have magnificent recommendations, and some of them will play field hockey or lacrosse. Oh, and there is this little thing about contributions…</p>
<p>By the way, they’ll also do “very well” in life, too, with lots of money, good jobs, and multiple husbands and wives.</p>
<p>ellebud, we can debate what is and is not sex again… ala “I did not have sex with that woman.” But they are hooking up and having sex—oral sex, sex, outercourse…its sex.</p>
<p>I saw part of a preview show over the weekend on Bravo. ey yi yi. The 10 minutes I watched included an interview with a boy and girl. They used to date, and now are friends. He called her a Bit** to her face, then as she was leaving and out of ear shot he called her an even worse word. I could not believe it and turned the channel. The money, the attitude, the comment about the money that would be spent by one of the families buying their way into an Ivy—truths I just did know want to have in my face that way. </p>
<p>Gossip Girl is fiction, fantasy, with some remorse and morality and guilt sprinkled in. It’s based on the stories in the series of books of the same name. I have caught a few episodes. Now knowing that reality is actually WORSE, it is a bit disturbing. </p>
<p>The comments from the kids about parents not having a clue… Ya think? Even now that the world knows? Maybe the parents still don’t care. But there will be parents of friends, or teachers, or principals/headmasters who will care. At least I would hope so. Maybe there will be parents out there who will take a look in the mirror, and check on their kids a bit more…</p>
<p>My final comment is the way these kids can just present a good fake ID and drink. Anywhere. Even in establishments that KNOW they are in high school My guess is, the bars turn and look the other way because these kids drop LARGE AMOUNTS OF CASH and help keep these places rolling in the dough. And hey, the ID says they are 21, so they must be 21, right?</p>
<p>PC is Pete Peterson’s grandson??$$%#@ …amazing. I heard him the other day on NPR. Totally self made Greek ancestry from the Midwest.His father ran a diner. Down to earth and smart as hell. His second wife is Joan Ganz Cooney of Sesame Street fame. I can’t see a guy like that liking this show one bit, whether he himself has made money or not. Having money doesn’t automatically make you an idiot.</p>
<p>I’m not sure these kids are auto-admits to the Ivies just because their parents throw some money around. If that were the case anyone with money would “Go Ivy” and that’s far from true. Does it help? Sure. Is it a guarantee? I don’t think so.</p>
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<p>Hmmm. I wonder why Richard Lawson, a 24-year-old sales coordinator in the Gawker Media ad department, has such an unhealthy obsession with Middlebury. He’s mentioned the college several times in his posts. Perhaps he didn’t get in and had to study playwriting at Boston College instead.</p>
<p>Oh well! You know what they say–there’s no such thing as bad publicity…</p>
<p>“I’m not sure these kids are auto-admits to the Ivies just because their parents throw some money around.”</p>
<p>No automatic admits. But you really can find them all over the place, if not in Ivies, then in top LACs, and other top privates. They are accepted because, according to the admissions offices, they are the most “high qualified”.</p>