<p>What a joke.</p>
<p>Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Joe BidenâŠwhat do all these âgreat Americansâ have in common? Other than low IQ and high self-esteem? An âeliteâ Boarding school education and a general lack of understanding of life.</p>
<p>Once again I ask what debrockman is doing on a prep school forum if she has no interest in having her children attend a prep school. The kind of aggressive defensiveness is usually a sign of some other side issue.</p>
<p>debrockman- No one here is attacking public schools, the Midwest or Christian values. Youâre welcome to the choices youâve made but please donât attack those who feel the best options for their families are different from those youâve chosen for yours. As Klements has very gently pointed out, no one area of the country has a monopoly on patriotism, values, love of family or (I would add) intellectualism.</p>
<p>The elitist attitude you display is a bit ironic considering your criticisms of the coasts.</p>
<p>Klements- thank you for your service, and your beautiful post. All I can say isâŠthere are some crazy people out there, and anyone can be anyone on the internet. I think weâve learned that with some of the âstudentâ posters in the past. Interestingly, my kidsâ lifetime friends from BS are from ConnecticutâŠand Chicago, Dallas, China and Canada! One of the most appealing facets of prep school for us was the gift of being surrounded by bright, engaged students from all over the world. Our local (New England) public school unfortunately, has some narrow minded bigots and Iâm grateful that they didnât have to go there.</p>
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Are you sure thatâs what you want to say for your good old public school? 'cause it sounds like a profile a boarding school student would have. How many of the 3000 students share those traits? And is your kids having those the result of their public school education? By the way, can your kids fly like birds? 'cause boarding schools teach that.</p>
<p>âOur local (New England) public school unfortunately, has some narrow minded bigots and Iâm grateful that they didnât have to go there.â Hahahahahaha. Oh, me too. You definitely wouldnât want Muffy and Buffy talking to commoners. So messy and diverse. Ewww.</p>
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<p>BenleyâŠALL of the kids have the same opportunity in a public school. Some of us left old England.</p>
<p>I couldnât resist a quick jump into this thread.</p>
<p>We live in Texas - granted most Texans donât consider themselves from the âMidwestâ nor the âHeartlandâ but we were our own country for awhile and there is still a lot of talk here about seceding from the Union - perhaps that will qualify us a âdifferent.â</p>
<p>A quick point - both George H Bush and George W Bush attended Phillips Academy (Andover) then on to Yale. You can draw your own conclusionsâŠ</p>
<p>We recently attended the Ten School Reception in Austin and the room was packed. Apparently the Houston and Dallas receptions were similarly well attended by the locals.</p>
<p>I think the distance is a huge issue for many - so much so that most folks donât even take the time to tour the schools for themselves and honestly consider the option. We toured 5 schools last month and had a wonderful time - an eye-opening experience.</p>
<p>Ironically, their âeliteâ boarding school is much, much, MUCH more diverse than their local rural public school! Much more âmessy and diverse,â thank goodness. Havenât met too many Muffy and Buffys there either, although Iâm sure theyâre out there. Oh wait, maybe I did see Muffy and Buffy across the field at a Deerfield game LOL. (Sorry Deerfield fans!)</p>
<p>Biohelpmom. Right. Rich kids from all over the world.</p>
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<p>Debrockman, you do yourself and your points of view ill. Is what you stand against more important that what you stand for? Why not be a standard-bearer for those Midwestern virtues you claim to have? Youâre having the paradoxical effect of reassuring those of us who respect and pursue the New England boarding school choice that our belief in the importance of plurality of opinion is sound. Why would someone want to adopt Midwestern values if they should leave us excluding and deriding others as you have?</p>
<p>Excluding and deriding has been perfected by the âPrepsâ and Ivies. Letâs not kid ourselves here. Diversity is not a mixture of lucky sperm from all over the world.</p>
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<p>Again, you make my point. Are you unable to say what youâre for without speaking in the negative?</p>
<p>Iâm still waiting to hear what values the boarding schools try to instill that debrockman is against.</p>
<p>I really donât want to get involved but boarding schools have a larger percentage of children on Financial Aid then most other private schools. In fact since most public schools donât have dress code many of the students are trying to impress each other with the number of clothes they can get from where and how much those clothes cost.</p>
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<p>The biggest three problems with prep schools are that 1.) they are generally secularâŠeven if they claim to require chapel. If you hold your religion in any regard, the prep school posture of holding all religions to be held of equal regard is to essentially state that you hold yours in low regardâŠ2.) thinking that an institution can or should raise a child means that tradition is more important to you than relationship, and finally,
3.) the people you have been sending out to govern us little people all seem to be idiots.</p>
<p>Urban, the elitists at the rich boarding schools love to tout the statistic about all the kids they have on financial aid. Of course we all know that is only because the American aristocray that attends them has so much money that they can afford endowments that will let in a few of the particularly smart âlittle peopleâ who can bolster their schoolâs statistics.</p>
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<p>We need Warren Buffett to chime in about Mid American values here.</p>
<p>A fool, a fool! I met a fool iâ the
forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and baskâd him
in the sun,
And railâd on Lady Fortune in good
terms,
In good set terms and yet a motley
fool.</p>
<p>As You Like It,
Act II, Scene 7</p>
<p>Warren Buffett has also set agnosticism before faith, and money before relationship⊠with either God or his family. Idolatry. Warren Buffett does not have midwestern values.
I always love people who can quote Shakespeare, but have no personal understanding of the Bible. Intellectual bankruptcy. Pursuit of human intelligence without a pursuit of God is just another kind of idolatry.</p>