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Horace Mann-Sense: Li'l Roy Cohn Sad, Former School Head's Spitzer Connection

Little public figure Charles Stam was the villain of New York Magazine's cover story on the terrible nonsense that goes on at tony prep school Horace Mann. Stam harassed a teacher for being a liberal feminist, and even lied about having a tape of her calling him a Nazi in an attempt to get her fired. He was promptly elected student body president! We posted a small picture of him from the Horace Mann yearbook earlier this week, and that made Stam sad. He emailed Gawker boss Nick Denton to ask that we remove his "personal material" from the site. Instead, we will reprint his email. It's after the jump, along with the sad tale of school head Thomas Kelly's toxic waste playground for the poor kids, and why it's all Eliot Spitzer's fault. More »

3:07 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Pareene
8,299 views, 72 comments

Latest by Phamos: I don't understand why these little shits don't seem to comprehend that NOTHING ON THE INTERNET IS ACTUALLY PRIVATE. more »

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Meet the Horace Mann Scandal Crew!

So you read the New York cover story about the mess at high-falutin' private prep school Horace Mann, but maybe you wanted more. Maybe you wanted to meet the faces behind the names. You are in luck, kind reader. With help from SECRET GAWKER SOURCES we found photos and bios for two of the anonymous rich assholes who gave the story its depressing color—the wealthy trustee mom whose daughter inadvertently engineered the whole scandal, and "Jeffrey Robbins," the Young Republican anti-Max Fischer who rose from liberal-baiting history class gadfly to misogynist class president. After the jump, meet the leaders of tomorrow! More »

3:40 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Pareene
11,592 views, 70 comments

Latest by n/a: Arrrgh -- I had a run in with the wealthy future heiress of the local bean cannery whose daughters got with her to help have my kid expelled from a lightweight private school near Buffalo, NY. I have gleefully savaged more »

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Horace Mann School Sued For "Smear Campaign" Against Fired Teacher

Andrew Trees—the teacher fired from Riverdale's tony Horace Mann School in January and the author of Academy X, a novel satirizing life inside an elite private school very much like Horace Mann!— filed suit today in Bronx County's New York State Supreme Court. He charges the school with breach of contract and defamation. Trees has been awful quiet since his firing—now we know why! More »

1:52 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Sheila
6,709 views, 47 comments

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Horace Mann Censors Student Paper

Dr. Andrew Trees, the author of a roman a clef about posh Riverdale prep school Horace Mann, remains fired from that institution. But his friends and former colleagues have rallied together on his behalf! Over 60 academics signed a letter to the editor of the Horace Mann Record—which was then prevented from publishing the letter by head of school Tom Kelly. Even new Record editor Elyssa Spitzer (yes, that's Eliot's daughter!) could not sway the discourse in the direction of free speech. The unprinted letter is after the jump. More »

1:50 PM on Thu May 31 2007
By Emily Gould
9,581 views, 17 comments

Latest by Some of My Best Friends Are People: @cdmunch: @cdmunch: Me too, man Boudicon Cacy Cat sitter, 2003-Present Publisher's Clearinghouse Potential Winner 2007- more »

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Horace Mann Teacher's Novel Got Him Canned

In this week's issue of The Record, the student newspaper of the posh Riverdale prep school where all our bosses' bosses send their offspring, there's a very inspiring paean to free speech. It concerns Dr. Andrew Trees, whose "forced departure," according to letter-writer and fellow faculty member Dr. Peter Sheehy, "raises serious questions for us as an academic institution." It sure does! Questions like, "Why'd they fire him now, and not when his Horace Mann-slamming roman a clef came out last year?" More »

6:07 PM on Tue May 22 2007
By Emily Gould
6,420 views, 24 comments

Latest by Aurelia: I'm also a HM alum. The book is, as others have said, pretty much true to life. While I dislike the fact that the Horace Mann Record has been censored by the school, I can't say that the firing of more »