<p>Must…not…feed…the…■■■■■. Must. RESIST…with all…my…strength!</p>
<p>DITTO, neatoburrito. It’s VERY hard tho. As a born and raised “southern” Midwesterner whose daughter is thriving at BS and with whom my relationship has just grown stronger and stronger every year, I’m chomping at the ol’ bit to chime in, but MUST. RESIST. LOL.</p>
<p>Just wanna say tho that, if she’s real (which I doubt), poor old debrockman is NOT the only kind of Midwesterner out here in the Heartland (ugh - hate that word!), but IS the kind who gives us a collective bad name. We are not all like that. Just saying.</p>
<p>Right, jedwards, some midwesterners are wannabe aristocrats, too. It’s true. Our neighbor fit that category, too. She was a pig farmer’s daughter, whose husband was a brilliant CPA. She was the wannabe. He was the true brain. After her kids didn’t make it into the talented classes in the suburban high school, or the first tier sports teams, they were wisked off to private boarding schools where lo and behold, they could excel. Interesting how a relationship can be stronger when you are apart from one another. I think there is therapy for that.</p>
<p>This is directed at all the CC posters who’ve been around a while – does “debrockman” remind anyone of “PrincipalV,” do ya think? Not sure at all, but meets the criteria of provocative arguments, nasty comments, unnecessary insults…yep, sounds like our boy! Even if not PV, definitely a ■■■■■ that should not be fed. </p>
<p>p.s. - where is FIF when you need him for a good snark?</p>
<p>maybe FiF = debrockman?</p>
<p>:) wouldn’t THAT be a hoot?</p>
<p>hee hee. that would be TOO good.</p>
<p>She is an Indiana Mom. If you read her other postings in the college area, you’ll see that she is deeply afraid of, angry at, disgusted by “hostile” liberals. She sees herself as a Midwestern, God-fearing, fundamentalist Christian Mom out to protect her son (and her sense of self) from those Godless elitists who pollute the Ivies and LACs (and New England boarding schools) and who are responsible for destroying the country she loves. All of this neurosis is wrapped in a profound sense of self-righteousness and the warm, comfort that everyone else is wrong and she is, incontrovertibly, right. There is only one way to see the world, only one way to be a Christian - her way.</p>
<p>I’m still with Neato, ■■■■■ or no ■■■■■. Ignore the nut nutjobs.</p>
<p>If you go to “My Control Panel”, you can manage your Ignore list. It’s like locking the junk food in the cupboard.</p>
<p>debrockman: “Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Joe Biden…what do all these “great Americans” have in common? Other than low IQ and high self-esteem? An “elite” Boarding school education and a general lack of understanding of life.”</p>
<p>Prominent Republican politicians with elite boarding school education, just to rattle off a few:</p>
<p>Presidents George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush: Phillips Andover</p>
<p>John McCain: Episcopal</p>
<p>Mitt Romney: Cranbrook</p>
<p>JFK graduated from Choate, ranking 64th in a class of 112.
Ted Kennedy earned C grades at Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy”.</p>
<p>Soccer_Dad…you just further prove my point. Clearly, you do not either have to be very bright to be a prepster. You don’t have to be very bright to go from prepster to Ivy. It’s all part of the American aristocracy which most of the country is ready to toss in the dumpster. You’ve given us both Congress and Wall Street. People without principles or morals. People raised by institutions in non-denominational “chapel”. Parlabane, you sound so open-minded.</p>
<p>debrockman-</p>
<p>If everyone here lived “in one of the most affluent counties in the US” with an “unusually strong” school and “lots and lots of smart kids” they might not need to apply to boarding schools. (quotes from debrockman on her kids’ school on a different thread)</p>
<p>My kids are not applying to BS because we have very strong public and private day schools in my town. Not everyone is that lucky.</p>
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<p>what boarding school did they attend?</p>
<p>I think the bad guy in the story is Ed Mezvinsky. Ed went to public high school in the heartland. Ames High School (Iowa).</p>
<p>that’s too funny!</p>
<p>Chelsea did not go to boarding school. She went to Sidwell Friends School in D.C.</p>
<p>There is a well-known artist / art teacher / art author named Deb Rockman, who may well be this ■■■■■ ([ArtPrize</a> - Deborah Rockman - An open art contest based in Grand Rapids Michigan, the world’s largest Art Prize.](<a href=“http://artprize.org/artist/id/91]ArtPrize”>http://artprize.org/artist/id/91) and <a href=“http://www.debrockman.com/resume/resume.pdf[/url]”>www.debrockman.com/resume/resume.pdf</a>. If it’s the same person, she says: “In examining the powerful role of those responsible for the welfare and development of our most significant and vulnerable resource - our children - it becomes apparent that a learned legacy of ignorance, neglect and abuse continues to thrive even while we turn away in denial or disbelief.” </p>
<p>For whatever reason, perhaps as a result of painful circumstances in her own life, she has determined that the ONLY way to bring children up correctly is to keep them close at hand until the last possible second. A person holding her views would never approve of boarding school and would never accept that a child could be loved as deeply and well by parents who would choose that path for their teenager versus parents who would choose to keep their children at home in Indiana. And certainly no child raised by a godless boarding school institution could produce an adult who is honorable, loving and contributes to the world positively and meaningfully.</p>
<p>It would be especially maddening to Deb that so many on this site would respect, praise, accept and support boarding schools. The idea that boarding school parents see the experience of sending their children away as an act of selfless love – doing what’s best for their child even if it means missing him or her terribly every second of every day – is an anathema to Deb, a non sequitur, a violation of a sacred bond. The additional fact that we parents have the gall to think of boarding school as a desirable, elite choice is salt in Deb’s self-inflicted wounds.</p>
<p>I think the ■■■■■ just took the name, and might be associated with Deb Rockman in some way. However, Deb Rockman does not sound like the kind of person who believes that her personal views speak for the entire midwest:</p>
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<p>debrockman is the name of her website, and the above quote came from her article “Culture, Identity and the Arts: Who Am I?”</p>
<p>Parlabane- that is so interesting. I wonder what happens when the children go off to “godless” state universities? Although I have to say that my children are pretty sheltered at boarding school- as each one of them got older they were surprised at how wild their hometown public school friends had become, the drunken car accidents etc. I guess I don’t feel that I have a monopoly on raising my kids- they have lots of trusted adults/advisors in their lives at school.</p>