Schools on the rise.

Parlabane
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:36:17 +0000

There are 3 or 4 posters who all sound like the same Hotchkiss shill on CC. It would be funny if it weren’t so nauseating. There must be 50 posts in the last two months about the prominence of Hotchkiss alumni in business etc. and very little mention about the actual quality of the Hotchkiss experience apart from the greasy skid of a student to Wall Street titan. No other boarding school posters (including A/E) on CC make such a concerted effort to define the school by how wealthy and C-level its alumni are (almost all examples used in posts graduated before 1980).

To me, it all seems really shallow and monotone. What about the rest of the Hotchkiss experience? What about kids who have other interests: cultural, public service etc? What sort of values does the school have (hopefully better than most Wall Streeters).

If there’s going to be a case made for Hotchkiss’ position as a top boarding school, it has to be built on more than its number of billionaires and trips to the Antarctic paid for by Mr. Mars.