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    Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War

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    Image of freedc freedc
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    It sounds like they're doing the play the "Laramie Project"? At least it didn't get cancelled like the Q&A and documentary planned around it.

    For the love of God! Skip & Co., go check out that play! If you walk away from that with no new insight into all of this, then you're a psychopath.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    The set-upon huddled masses of rich entitlement suffer yet another insignificant, inconsequential and otherwise invisible blow to their impregnable default power-base. Oh, the humanity.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    Hate to break it to you, but a man named "Hugh 'Skip' McGee III" cannot be served.

    It's, like, physics or something. He is imprevious to shame, ridicule and/or self-doubt.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    Those who are mourning the Kinkaid School's loss can join those mourning the NYS Supreme Court's refusal to let Columbia steal more than the 97% of West Harlem it has already.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    When white, heteronormative entitlement gets thwarted in co-opting genderbending by the granola-chomping left...

    Pass the Grape Nuts.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/04/09

    @BettyCrocker: You left out $$$$$$$$
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/04/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: It almost goes without saying, but yeah.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/04/09

    @BettyCrocker: Cuz it's one thing when it's just the dispossessed, unemployed, uninformed rubes in the hinterlands who are stupid, but these people have power and authority and $$$$
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/04/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Yes indeedy!
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/04/09

    @BettyCrocker: Let's have a riot
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    My high school only had one pep rally a year for Homecoming. The cheerleaders dressed like the football players and the football players dressed like cheerleaders and they were the only ones that thought it was funny or cute, but we humored them.
    The only controversy I remember was that they did not want a girl in the Wildcat mascot costume because they were scared she would get felt up by rowdy kids when the mascot did the traditional crowd surf.
    (Which is why I wanted to be the mascot in the first place!)
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    Ray Childress has a lot of nerve keeping his kids in private school after totally screwing his employees and running his Chevy dealership into the ground.

    When I was in high school (mumble 1970) the drill team all wore wigs so their hair was identical. Needless to say they were lily white.
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    12/04/09

    @miss_msry: Amazing! Do they get to fling their wigs in the air when they graduate?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    @[gawker.com] was hilarious, they looked like 150 high-kicking Barbies during half-time. I think that was the last football game I ever attended. Yeah, Houston is a whole other dimension.
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    12/04/09

    @miss_msry: I wish I could see it! I'm picturing something like this but with identical blonde bouffants.
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    Image of jimstoic jimstoic
    12/04/09

    @miss_msry: Sounds like the Kilgore Rangerettes.

    [www.rangerette.com]
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    @jimstoic:

    Yeah, the Wranglerette (Westchester HS) director most definitely stole what I considered to be a stupid idea.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    Is this like Conde hiring McKinsey?
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    In reply to Prep School on Diversity Lockdown After Wall Street Dad Declared Culture War
    I cannot believe how times have changed...

    Back in 1985, my high school in a suburb of Chicago was playing the Trojans for Homecoming. What a fun pep rally that was. Cheerleaders and football players alike, dressed up as pregnant teens chanting "Pop the Trojans." Students, teachers and administrators all had a good laugh together.

    Any other Hilltoppers out there that remember that great rally?
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    Edited by momof3wildkids at 12/04/09 6:25 AM momof3wildkids was starred momof3wildkids was unstarred
    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    12/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: What you've described there sounds like the precursor to a massive group rape.

    Now, back in glorious 1995 wee Hangnail was asked if he was "some kind of fag" by the Vice Principal because he refused to attend a mandatory pep rally. So, uh, maybe my feelings on these sorts of primitive rituals of rage and exclusion are less than cheerful.
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    Image of BankerHardcore BankerHardcore
    12/04/09

    @Private Hangnail: Now I'm glad we don't have "real" pep rallies in NYC.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/04/09

    @BankerHardcore: Yeah, my NYC high school didn't even have a football team.

    You know what would be fun for a pep rally?

    Dress everyone in suits and ties and have them hold up signs saying "I broke the world's economy" and see who thinks it's funny and who doesn't
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    12/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: "I cannot believe how times have changed..."

    Times have not changed at all.
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    12/04/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Mine too. But we did have ironic tee-shirts about the non-existent football team. Perhaps we went to the same school.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    @Private Hangnail: It was hardly a massive precursor to group rape. It was merely a play on the team's name. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

    Your vice principal sounds like quite the ass....
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/04/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Mine either, and being on our basketball team wasn't even considered cool. (For some reason, we were all about hockey.) We also didn't have cheerleaders. But somehow, we had the occasional pep rally.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Maybe not everywhere, but I can tell you that my high school wouldn't allow this now.

    What I get from the douchey letter from this Dad is that he is intolerant at anyone who isn't just as lily white, ostensibly heterosexual and boring as he is. The pep rally really wasn't the issue (the skit sounded harmless enough to me given the sketchy details), it was merely the icing on the cake.

    As Kincaid is a private school, they are naturally exclusionary. They seek the "best," be it educators, athletes and students. The debate is now beginning there at what 'best' means. Should prove pretty interesting.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    12/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: I went to a private school. It was exactly like this all the time. I graduated nearly twenty years ago. It was the same before I went there. It has been, and will always be, this way.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Well, I'm a public school kid. Don't you think that in the past your school would have allowed the cross-dressing skit?

    I'm not sure it is healthy if we cannot poke fun at each other, within reason, from time to time. Within reason is the key phrase there.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: Hello, Westie. Love from your cousin from the East.
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    Image of jimstoic jimstoic
    12/04/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I would find it both hilarious and sad. Hilarious, because it cleverly speaks truth to power. Sad, because the people holding the signs are still as rich as Hungarian cave-dwellers.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: How now another Western suburb gal. Rams? Well, we could have done a similar skit on you guys too.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: When I played football for East, you could have Most Definitely done a skit like that. We were the losingest team out there. I'm a year ahead of you, btw.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    12/05/09

    @momof3wildkids: You miss the point.

    Everything is awash in controversy at private schools because the parents feel very entitled to meddle, and because administrators run the place like its a multi-billion dollar business in which the parents are the shareholders. Meanwhile, the teachers are generally not at all up to the challenge.

    This kind of bigotry and stupidity and big-fish-small-pond tussling is par for the course.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/05/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: We had many a pep rally while I was at West. I was there during the years that we won State both in volleyball and football.

    You still back there? I'm heading home for xmas. Each time I go back, I'm amazed at the development that has gone on in GE.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/05/09

    @momof3wildkids: Our pep rallies were the best since there was always an undercurrent of fraught excitement over whether the Joe Boys or Wah Ching would make an unscheduled (at least in regards to authorities) appearance. And if they did, BOY would the sparks fly!
    Ahh, city life.
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    Image of IAmChuckBass IAmChuckBass
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    My mom spoke at our high school graduation. Ouch.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    06/17/09

    @IAmChuckBass: OMG I THOUGHT YOUR MOM WAS DEAD AND IT WAS YOUR FAULT.
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    Image of sakade sakade
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    At my boarding school graduation, Arnold Palmer was the speaker and told us all how we could one day have a private jet, like him. Well. I've been working in Arts Administration for over a year now and I ask you, Arnold, where is my jet?!
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Remember when Julia Allison spoke at a commencement last year? It's not like they're all that picky...
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    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Good to catch up on what happened to those socialites' unplanned pregnancies from the early '90s...
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    In the real world, there is only sex.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Yes, it does make me want to cry. Cry for my embarrassment, cry for my indignation, cry for those who believe that in the real real world, there is only love.
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