Posted on 09/19/2018 8:15:19 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
On Monday Sept. 17th, Christine Blasey Ford’s high school yearbooks suddenly disappeared from the web. I read them days before, knew they would be scrubbed, and saved them. Why did I know they would be scrubbed? Because if roles were reversed, and Christine Blasey Ford had been nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump, the headline by the resistance would be this:
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND THE DRUNKEN WHITE PRIVILEGED RACIST PLAYGIRLS OF HOLTON-ARMS.
And it would be an accurate headline. That’s why the yearbooks have been scrubbed. They are a testament to the incredible power these girls had over their teachers, parents and the boys of Georgetown Prep, Landon and other schools in the area. In the pages below, you will see multiple photos and references to binge drinking and the accompanying joy of not being able to remember any of it.
These yearbooks are, therefore, relevant to the national investigation now being conducted in the media, in homes, and in the halls of Congress. And they should not have been scrubbed. If Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbooks are fair game, so are these.
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I’m still surprised that this was in the yearbook. Was it COMPLETELY unsupervised, or was this considered acceptable to the faculty?
This is meaningless...I don’t think it will surprise anyone who went to high school around that time period that kids got falling down drunk, were horny and stupid...
Which makes this and the alleged assault a big nothing burger...
No, he went to Whaley High.
What has THAT got to do with private day schools?
Was it a specialty, parochial high school?
Hmmmm.......and you believe that ONLY kids who come from families that had/have more money than you, act out/were/are wild? If so, you are mistaken!
By all means, have "disgust" for bad behavior and the people who engage in such; however, you're painting with far to gigantic a brush. And your arrogance is as bad as those who you condemn out of hand.
Just as there are wild kids in every social strata and bad adults too.
Obviously, the girls profiled in this year book were off the charts "WILD" and had no shame at all. That's on them! It doesn't mean that they were the "norm" for ALL kids who went to similar or better, more elite/posh school, during that time; nor before or after.
I did see that and found it extremely peculiar and disgusting!
Um. That book was available for free download online.
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I also graduated a decade before and I can tell you that NOTHING like these photos would have EVER passed the powers that be and made into the pages of our yearbook!!! I find it very hard to believe that in a PRIVATE school these photos would have been OK’d to hit the pages of a high school year book, but HEY what do I know!!! Just seems to me that if parents considering sending their kids to a PRIVATE high school ever saw the pages of this yearbook their enrollment numbers would be effected considerably!!! Of course I did not grow up in the ELITE crowd so I have NO IDEA what would be acceptable to these parents OR if these parents even gave a s**t !!!!!
I would be surprised to see something like that in a high school yearbook today, but 35 years ago? Absolutely unheard of.
Obviously, the parents let their darling princesses do whatever the hell they wanted.
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I’m not condemning wealth, or wealthy people, NP. Wealth isn’t ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Its effect lies entirely in how individuals use it.
But great wealth and privilege without powerfully enforced character training seem to afford unique opportunities for young people to go wrong, and grow up with very screwy value systems.
In a certain way, it’s what has happened to our nation as a whole. We are a rich, comfortable country, and many of us have gotten very soft. We have the ‘snowflakes’ today because many have been given so much, protected so entirely from adversity and the consequences of personal acts and decisions, and so poorly educated, that they can’t deal with Life in a common-sense way.
(My mother, whom I never knew, attended H-A when it was still in DC. Judging by personal effects that were left behind, in certain aspects - (and everything being relative in terms of different times and mores) - the school doesn’t seem to have been much different in the 1980s than it was in the 1940s, when it comes to ‘wild girls’...)
All high schools, public, private day, parochial, and boarding have reputations! Evidently H-A has always been what it was/is. That doesn't mean that every other such school, nor the teachers and kids are the same, just because they are elite private day schools!
Take the top 3 elite/posh private day schools, in Chicago, at that time and their reputation. All of the following schools had/have grades pre-K through 12.
Francis W. Parker: mostly kids from wealthy families, but also scholarship kids, mostly known for "wild kids" ( but not all of them were nor are ), artsy-fartsy, "bohemian", and "WILD", with not a lot of homework or hard core study, in the lower school. Famous alums include Celeste Holmes, Jennifer Beals, Edward Gorey, Daryl Hannah, and David Mamet.
Latin School of Chicago; is older than Parker, draws kids from THE GOLD COAST, but also has scholarship kids from other places, has been known as "THE BI**H OF THE MIDWEST" ( but not all of the girls who ever went there, turn out to be bi**hes ), hard core education, lots of homework ( some ridiculous "busywork" stuff ) starting in the first grade. Famous alums include Nancy Davis Reagan, Bob Balaban,the Bell kids ( Bradly and Lauralee ),Bruce McCormick, Claes Oldenburg,Neil Strauss ( and his brother Todd), Bill Wirtz, William Wrigley II, Adlai Stevenson III, Hayes MacArthur ( and his brother ), Abra Rockefeller Prentice Wilkin, Abra P. Norton.
University of Chicago Laboratory School...founded by John Dewey, older than Parker, younger than Latin,and unlike those two schools, is on the South Side, in Hyde Park and the kids were originally viewed as lab specimens and for all I know, still are. It has a sort of wild rep, but different from the kids at Parker "wild". The pupils come from the families of college profs, doctors, pols. Famous alums: Arne Duncan, Valerie Jarrett, Margo Jefferson, Sam Kass, Sherry Lansing, Richard Loeb ( of Leopold & Loeb infamy ), the Obama girls went there before moving to the White House.
Yes, we are a rich powerful nation and to some extent, coming from a wealthy family bestows some privileges, but kids raise with the SPOCK METHOD, began the down slide and now we have snowflakes, Antifa, and such, but most of these kids do NOT come from uber wealthy, nor even upper middle class families.
Interesting re your mother and H-A; thanks for that info.
I will have to bone-up on the ‘Spock’ method. I recall hearing about it decades ago, but since I’ve never had children of my own, I never looked deeply into things like this.
What, in your opinion, was the problem with Dr. Spock?
(I have read Joseph Chilton Pearce, for other reasons...)
I was curious and read it. Even as a small child, I found it to be garbage and I was right. And FYI...Spock did NOT raise his own kids using that method.
I really don't remember all of it, but some of the crazy things were 1)anticipate what your child wants and give it to him/her 2) allow your children to do what they want to ( or words to that effect, meaning that the parents weren't supposed to set rules nor guide them ), and stuff like that. It's been many more decades than I care to my, since I read it, so memory of it is a tad fuzzy. Needless to say, it is NOT the way I raised my progeny!
And re my screed about the three elite private day schools in Chicago ( I did leave out the elite/Posh Catholic and one Jewish school/s, but will happily supply info about those, if need be. But the kids from the Jewish private school weren't part of the group/s that they other schools' kids were, so I don't know all that much about that.
OTOH...I DO know, extremely well, about the kids from Latin and Parker, when they were kids and now, what many of them are like as adults. And also I have and have seen the year books.
I am also more than able to also discuss boarding schools, should that come up.
I’ve always thought that sending kids to boarding schools was a bad idea.
Why do you think it’s good?
It is THE most rigorous education a kid can get.
It teaches skills that no other kind of school can...leadership skills, study tools, how to survive without parents, but teachers DO act in loco parentis; at least they did. And back when I went, they also taught "social graces", which most had anyway, but this enforced good manners and social graces.
Unlike other school proms, those at boarding schools ( which were held off campus P) were not only supervised within an inch of the kids' lives, but all of the kids were on buses, going and coming, with absolutely NO WAY for them to 1) drink 2) do drugs 3) engage in sexual escapades.
Have kids at boarding schools gotten into trouble, been wild, done BAD things? Sure, some have and some of the most ELITE ones have been turned into hell holes/drug entities/sex problem catastrophes/places for adult predators; but that can and does happen in other schools too and not just boarding schools, nor private day ones.
They also are part of a networking system; sometimes better ones than colleges are!
The kids are much better prepared for college and college life.
There's more, but while it's not for everyone, it is good for many, even IF they hate it.
Having grown up in a very close-knit family that went through a lot of difficulty, I think it’s important for kids to remain in the family home, especially during the period when they are really coming into themselves as individuals, deciding what they think and believe, &c.
The greatest way to instill character in a young person is to have them living with their family, within that close circle of love and concern, DEALING with, and taking some RESPONSIBILITY for, the family issues that arise every day.
(In my family, as I think you’ve intimated that it was in yours, we were never ‘talked down to’. But we were also never protected from the crises that came along - we were included in everything, and because of that we grew up feeling as though we could HANDLE anything.)
You learn the really human stuff within a *family*. And you learn it most when you have reached the age when you can begin to grasp the dynamics of it.
Perhaps this is more true with lower-income families, such as the one I grew up within; but it would have broken my heart to have been sent away from my little family and been half-raised by people who were NOT family. I would have always been wanting to be there with them, in the midst of that little universe. There’s plenty of time later, to go to University, and learn to live with other people, and learn to handle oneself as an adult.
I just don’t like the idea of boarding school, for pre-college young people. The most important education for those is within the Family.
Just my opinion :-)
You act as though Boarding school kids NEVER go home or are in contact with their families. That's just not the case. They have long vacations and lots of time at home in the summer. Also, when I was at school ( no, I don't think it's the same now ) we had a day and specific time ( Sunday afternoons ) when we had to write home and yes, they checked!
And you were allowed to call home.
The same was true for my progeny.
I said that it isn't for everyone, but you WILL learn things there, that you NEVER will living at home. It's a different dynamic and one you won't/can't learn by reading fiction and nonfiction books about boarding schools.
If your character isn't formed by the time you're 14, there's something missing at home. Sorry, but that's how I see it. And it isn't going to get better/improved, from 14-17/18, at home, either.
When kids go off to college, the ones who have been at boarding school are far more ready to be away and knuckle down to work and work hard than those who have been at home. The latter group often go WILD, because they can't handle the freedom. And that was more true of my progeny's time, than mine, by a lot.
How much a child/children is cossetted, protected and kept in the dark, or exposed to some of the rigors of real life problems, in the adult world, varies from family to family.
There are some problems that NO child/teen should be exposed to!
If there are financial problems, then yes, to some extent the kids need to be told and understand what that means, but I don't believe that kids should know actual financial numbers, in good times nor in bad.
You'll NEVER learn leader skills at home, as you can at boarding school, nor the interactions with peers, who often are from different social strata, countries, backgrounds. It's a skill that even many adults never learn.
Since all elite boarding schools have scholarship kids, middle class kids, upper middle class and extremely wealthy kids, you will have a "mix". And even in the 1950s,yes, there were black kids at my school and they were from wealthy families and did NOT speak "ghetto". They were also extremely intelligent and weren't AA picks, because there was no such thing back then.
bttt
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