Former prep school kid here, they aren’t gonna stand a chance if they don’t establish top tier athletics because that’s what all the newer private schools have gone toward to make up for their lack of an alumni network, which in my experience is one of the most important parts and I’d argue what you are truly paying for besides a great e…
Former prep school kid here, they aren’t gonna stand a chance if they don’t establish top tier athletics because that’s what all the newer private schools have gone toward to make up for their lack of an alumni network, which in my experience is one of the most important parts and I’d argue what you are truly paying for besides a great education, so I don’t know why anyone would want to go to a school where that is lacking! It’s like all of the Ivys and top colleges— the real benefit is in the networking with alumni
Even the response to the lax question got me real nervous for these kids. Also the weekend programming being seeing Harry Potter on broadway...??? If I was a parent I'd be pissed.
An east coast prep school without lacrosse is a dire situation. And yes they shouldn’t be seeing Broadway shows they should be getting their entertainment the same way we all did living at school in the middle of nowhere: sneaking into the boys dorms to get “drunk” on one singular beer and finding a random hangout spot in the woods to play truth or dare and stash your booze!
Our major source of entertainment was via the son of a famous actress - she’d send him screeners and he’d take over the auditorium on Saturday nights. And we didn’t exactly have any ability to choose what she sent us so that’s how you ended up with the entire school watching a pre-release copy of The People Vs Larry Flynt on a random Saturday night.
Well, that and hiking into the woods to smoke cloves and pass around the 3 warm Zimas someone’s brother at Dartmouth obtained for us.
The woods were such a classic. Our hangout was these huge rocks called Devils Alter in what we thought was sooo deep into the woods but in reality we were like 10 feet from the headmasters house
Former prep school kid here, they aren’t gonna stand a chance if they don’t establish top tier athletics because that’s what all the newer private schools have gone toward to make up for their lack of an alumni network, which in my experience is one of the most important parts and I’d argue what you are truly paying for besides a great education, so I don’t know why anyone would want to go to a school where that is lacking! It’s like all of the Ivys and top colleges— the real benefit is in the networking with alumni
Even the response to the lax question got me real nervous for these kids. Also the weekend programming being seeing Harry Potter on broadway...??? If I was a parent I'd be pissed.
An east coast prep school without lacrosse is a dire situation. And yes they shouldn’t be seeing Broadway shows they should be getting their entertainment the same way we all did living at school in the middle of nowhere: sneaking into the boys dorms to get “drunk” on one singular beer and finding a random hangout spot in the woods to play truth or dare and stash your booze!
correct. the traffic into the city on the weekend is going to be so rough for those kids.
Our major source of entertainment was via the son of a famous actress - she’d send him screeners and he’d take over the auditorium on Saturday nights. And we didn’t exactly have any ability to choose what she sent us so that’s how you ended up with the entire school watching a pre-release copy of The People Vs Larry Flynt on a random Saturday night.
Well, that and hiking into the woods to smoke cloves and pass around the 3 warm Zimas someone’s brother at Dartmouth obtained for us.
The woods were such a classic. Our hangout was these huge rocks called Devils Alter in what we thought was sooo deep into the woods but in reality we were like 10 feet from the headmasters house
Clove cigarettes… memories 🥹
We used to be a society.
Totally