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BlinkyMcChuck
12/11/08

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So, does this mean the Times is okay with all of the Times bashing it's getting?
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fiona2288
12/11/08

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People need to get their facts straight before they pass any judgement. I am a Porter's grad and this story has been completely skewed. The girl CHEATED multiple times and was pissed that her college of choice acceptance was revoked. This girl is of THE Bass family...check the Forbes list..a Billionaire who was pissed when she didn't get her way. This is not news worthy and only makes a great school look bad.
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TerseNursePornstein
12/11/08

@fiona2288: Bass as in Robert, Lee, Sid and Ed? Huh. Not challenging you, but curious as to why the Post didn't run with that. Curious as well that there's some renegade relative running an insurance company...
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miss_msry
12/11/08

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Can the young ladies at Miss Porter's actually pronounce "Oprichniki"?
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TerseNursePornstein
12/11/08

@miss_msry: Yeah, they're smart, That and the fact that the first syllable and a half might as well be Oprah-- whose niece attended!
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ObtuseIntolerant
12/11/08

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As a self-righteous public school kindergarten mommy, I am just kind of feeling smug to think that these parents PAID HEARTILY for the "privilege" of having their poor daughter go through this crap.

And I can think of at least two other instances of merciless private school bullying experienced by kids of my immediate circle of friends alone.

Public school has its problems...but I guess in the ones I know all the kids are too busy trying striving for the desk that isn't under the leaky roof to worry too much about torturing each other like this?
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noxiousbeast
12/11/08

@ObtuseIntolerant: Unlikely. Try instead that the teaching staff are too under-resourced and overworked to be able to notice, much less intervene.
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Hydroceph
12/11/08

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The article's whole point seems to be that teasing, hazing, and hierarchies are just fine with our children because it's common as dirt in nature. But isn't the point of it all, or at least of the Enlightenment, that we can be more than our animals selves? Can he possibly mean to say that it's OK for children to act like the shits that they are because they're just getting touch with their inner monkeys?

Sorry, I don't buy it. I've potty trained my son (literally and figuratively) to get away from all this nature crap, thank you very much. I'm certainly not going to let him revert on the playground.

Suffering Christ, if this douche wears glasses, uses soap, or shaves, then I don't want to hear another f***ing word from him.
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Hydroceph
12/11/08

@Hydroceph: sorry, animal selves. Caffeine + high dudgeon = poor typing.
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gladys_kravitz
12/11/08

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My college roommate went to Choate and I am still terrified of her to this day 20 years later.
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Dickdogfood
12/11/08

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Well of course teasing is good for us--neurosis is the engine that drives the economy!
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arguablythemostfamous
12/11/08

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big news kids, high school sucks! unless you're "cool", in which case I imagine it still sucks, but in entirely different ways (see Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club), but maybe I'm being too generous.

best advice, if you want back in to that school, never sue. you don't eff with a private school's money, especially if you don't have any. fighting a losing battle against people who know how to fight it, ms. bass. unfortunate but true.
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Ha Ha Sound
12/11/08

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It would be really cool if high schools actually did have Russian death squads. Or, if that seems too violent, then decent french fries.
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Minsley Tortimer
12/11/08

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heather, why are you such a mega-bitch?

srsly tho: southern teens of this type = pure evil, probably moreso the ones down in beaufort / charleston / savannah where people still live on old plantations, joke about owning slaves and belong to the DAR. southern bitches are the worst.
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morninggloria
12/11/08

@Minsley Tortimer: Southern beaches, however, are beautiful, tranquil places to get some sun and enjoy peace and quiet.
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Baroness
12/11/08

@Minsley Tortimer: Well, it was the victim who was Southern; the school in question is Connecticut. I thought the school was in SC at first read too though.
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BookishLookish
12/11/08

@Minsley Tortimer: My husband is from the Deep South. I went back with him to the city where he went to high school for one of his reunions and met a gaggle of girls with whom he graduated, one of whom he dated. They were nice, except for his ex, who told me in so many words that she was amazed my husband married a woman whose proportions were so pneumatic. I told her, "Look, I don't play that death by a thousand cuts shit like you bitches do down here. I am from New Jersey and I will clock you in the head so hard you will see every one of the stars on the fucking Confederate flag if you say one more word to me." That kinda worked.
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pureblarney
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: Goddamn! Way to go!
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FracturedAcetabulum
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: and that, BL, is why I love you. Well, one of the reasons.
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Baroness
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: Awesome. Did the bitch say, "bless your heart" after her snide insinuation?
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BookishLookish
12/11/08

@Baroness: Nah. Her eyes just got as big as two saucers in her momma's good china and she walked away.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: Very clever response!

But I will say as a born and bred Southern gal, that not all of us are mean, nasty and complete troublemakers.

During my high school reunion I was talking to one of my former guy friends. His bitchy wife, one of those blonde trophy wives dripping with diamonds, maee a snarky comment about my maritial status. I took her down in one sentence with her husband blissfully unaware. It was awesome!

I didn't start the bitch-fest but I sure as heck finished it.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
12/11/08

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: er "made a snarky comment..."

I need coffee!
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BookishLookish
12/11/08

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: Oh, no. I love the girls of the South. They are some righteous dames and cannot be blamed for the stray mean-ass or jealous beyotch among 'em. Beautiful manners and great cooks and fun as hell out for a night of drinking and hootin' and hollerin'! And pretty!
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GoFish
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: It just goes to show, southern bitches have class, northern bitches are just bitches.
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MsMuffinMcGuffin
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: Why thank ya, Ma'am ;-)

And I've met some pretty awesome Jersey gals as well!
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: "death by a thousand cuts"... hilarious
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BookishLookish
12/11/08

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: You know, we gots our different styles, and that's how it should be. Vive le difference!
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BookishLookish
12/11/08

@GoFish: Aw, why the hate, honey? Unless you identify a little too much with the mean girls of the South, in which case, see Minsley's initial response. And he should know, he is from SC.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/11/08

@GoFish: what's classy about being passive aggressive?
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ShanghaiLil
12/11/08

@BookishLatkeish: In the future, I want you always to sit by me. And I grew up in Georgia, about as deep-south as you can get.
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BookishLookish
12/12/08

@ShanghaiLil: If you can't say something nice, come sit by BookishL? Got a nice spot ready for ya!
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Spirit Fingers
12/11/08

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Oh, urg.

Kids today are such little sissified, mung bean-infused, Whole-Foods vacuum sealed pod people. Name a generation of teenagers in civilization where teasing hasn't been a mainstay, or a staple food like Skittles. It's what happens when non-fully formed pieces of person are in that tender, "Fuck everyone, else. I'm the only one who really matters!" stage. Teasing is what they do. Whining is what they do better. So parents of teenagers, remember what it was like to have pimples, halitosis because you had braces and couldn't ever get all the bread out, armpit sweat, itchy balls and unsightly hair sprouting out of formerly hairless places. Share these embarrassments with your kids while you tell them that it will all go away with adulthood, (do this convincingly, because that's a lie, you know) and tell them to man up because they have a book report due.

That is all, except...STOP TREATING YOUR CHILD LIKE THEY ARE THE FRICKEN MESSIAH, AND LET THEM EXPERIENCE LIFE. And they may not become cunts for the rest of their lives.

End.
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pmarble
12/11/08

@Spirit Fingers: Keep in mind that this is a boarding school, and that this student didn't get to go home to her parents every night to help balance out the Lord of the Flies treatment. It seems odd to suggest that it's harder in these bastions of wealth and privilege, but sometimes it is terribly hard.
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Spirit Fingers
12/11/08

@pmarble: I have real problems with boarding schools. I don't believe any child is ready to be away from their parents at that age, precisely because they need that balancing out. There may be those who are there because of some unique opportunity that they wouldn't ordinarily have, and not because they are spoiled and wealthy, but gaining that unique experience in an environment basically built for the spoiled, rich, and those who parents often see boarding school as a convenient place to stock pile children for a few years, seems so Mommie Dearest, and well, what do you really expect to find in the attitudes there?

No kid has the wherewithal to handle living on their own, many find this out even at 19, in college.
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it takes a lot to laugh
12/11/08

@Spirit Fingers: "Whole-Foods vaccuum sealed pod people"

Excellant.
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it takes a lot to laugh
12/11/08

@it takes a lot to laugh: or, I don't know, Excellent.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/11/08

@pmarble:

I've always thought that it would be far worse to go to a Brearley/Spence/Chapin and have to go home every night to a crummy neighborhood with people who didn't understand you and might even try to undermine you. You might have a considerable commute and you literally might have nowhere to study; certain after-school activities would be out because you'd be watching the clock all the time.

But point taken, having less power (here, financial and social power), makes you feel vulnerable and can push a certain kind of person over the edge.

@Spirit Fingers:

I don't think that's everyone's experience of boarding school, at least a good one. It's more like a heavily regimented summer camp with rigorous classes and activities. (Admittedly, camp wasn't fun for everyone.)

The kids aren't on their own. They receive lots of supervision. The adults don't usually tolerate bullying and hazing, if they know about it.
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morninggloria
12/11/08

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Maybe change the name to Miss Porter's School Of Hard Knocks (so sack up, bitches!) would eliminate any future lawsuits by the delicate flowers that can't hack it in the rich lady jungle.
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lobstr
12/11/08

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Miss Porter's??? What is this, the fucking 1700s? For recess, do they sip sarsaparilla and bandy about the courtyard with parasols?
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morninggloria
12/11/08

@lobstr: I actually went to college with a few young does that attended that hilariously named institution.

They were not that awesome.
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/11/08

@lobstr: They actually sip Hot Cider from the Dicken's Farm. I heard the pastor's wife can't go to bed without some of that Hot Dicken's Cider.
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PandoraSpocks
12/11/08

@lobstr: It's totally famous -- for all the wrong reasons.
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Baroness
12/11/08

@lobstr: It's actually pretty famous, Jackie Bouvier and tons of other society girls went there, back in yore. It was the school for rich girls, academically undemanding and designed for the deb set.
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CodePink
12/11/08

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Looking back on it, I really wish I had gotten into more fist fights with my bullies. That would have settled things right then and there.
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Private Hangnail
12/11/08

@CodePink: Yes, because you can't be forced to go to school when you're in traction.
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CodePink
12/11/08

@Private Hangnail: I used to have fantasies about beating them up, but then I never did! Which is dumb cuz I was a sturdy girl, and full of Irish fury.
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shehatesme
12/11/08

@CodePink: Not that you would have needed it, but I TOTALLY would have had your back.
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Spaceman Bill Leah
12/11/08

@CodePink: Awww you should have. Even acting like you will was satusfying.

I only needed threaten to whomp bitchasses on behalf of my sister and they would leave her alone.
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CodePink
12/11/08

@shehatesme: Oh you are always the sweetest. :)
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/11/08

@CodePink: that's how it was settled in my school. you had beef, you fought, then it was over. never this long lasting, psychological shit.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
12/11/08

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geez, this is all very "all i wanna do" - except terrible. I am so grateful that I didn't have any TERRIBLE experiences with girls in high school.
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