The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School

New York ^ | January 30, 2006 | Alex Morris

[cgk]

Glad I'm going to homeschool ping.

[Tired of Taxes]

Oh my...

Go to the schools, talk to the kids, and you’ll see that somewhere along the line this generation has started to conceive of sexuality differently.

Gee, I can't imagine how that happened. (/s)

[Tired of Taxes]

A Let's-never-let-our-kids-anywhere-near-a-public-school Ping!

[LIConFem]

My dad went to Stuyvesant in the 40's. I'm glad he'll never read this article.

[netmilsmom]

>>This is what happens when parents abandon guiding the lives of their children in the right paths.<<
>>This is what happens when parents abandon guiding the lives of their children in the right paths.<<
>>This is what happens when parents abandon guiding the lives of their children in the right paths.<<

This needs to be repeated many, many times.....

[GOP_Thug_Mom]

This too shall pass

Pass into what?

[GovernmentShrinker]

No, just doing well in school won't guarantee a wonderful life, but I think kids who graduate from schools like Stuyvesant and MIT have a significantly better chance of growing up to not be terrified of middle managers, than kids who graduate from average public schools and average state or private colleges. The wild extracurricular life of this particular clique is unlikely to neutralize that difference, especially since it likely to be limited significantly during college by a huge workload that the kids are serious about keeping up with.

[HitmanLV]

I've gone to school and worked with that type of person. 1,000s of them. My experience is almost exactly the opposite of what you suggest. The best & brightest tend to be more rigid and not as adaptable as students who go to more average schools.

My current career has me working very closely with very smart and talented graduate students in a very competitive field. On balance, they tend to lack perspective, are unduly used to being right (often at their expense), aren't flexible and can't adapt very quickly or very well, etc.

Most of these students wind up in careers that pay very well, but they are fairly fearful people - fear of losing face, fear of being wrong, fear of being embarrassed, fear of getting in trouble, etc.

Just my experience versus yours.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The members of this little clique don't strike me as prone to "fear of losing face, fear of being wrong, fear of being embarrassed, fear of getting in trouble".

[HitmanLV]

That's cause they're children. I was talking about how they will bridge into adulthood and more adult concerns.

In fact, these children do impress me as trying very hard to be cool, hep, open minded, etc (in fact, the article explicitly says so). They in fact are trying very hard not to lose face or be embarrassed - their behavior makes them cool, not outcasts, in their environment.

But like i said, I speak from my experience. I've gone to the finest schools and have worked closely with the best and brightest. They aren't all that, and have more than their share of hangups, only some of them I have explored here.

You speak from your experience. I speak from mine. That's all.

[Pyro7480]

Laura Ingraham is interviewing the author of this article right now.

[KittyKares]

I just assume it's girls vying for boys' attention.

I heard the author interviewed on Laura Ingram's show, and she said it wasn't just for the boys -- sometimes boys weren't even present!

[presidio9]

I heard it. Right now there are certain moderators who are moving virtually everything I post to chat to make a point about libertarianism. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. One of the most popular conservative talk-show hosts spent half her program on this story, but it is not news on FR. I notice this happening a lot lately.

[Pyro7480]

FR is trending towards libertarianism in the arena of social issues.

[presidio9]

One of FR's notorius and protected libertarian ring leaders is defending NARL on this thread. Clearly it is getting out of hand.

[Frank T]

^

[Frank T]

"To these kids, homophobia is as socially shunned as racism was to the generation before them."

Yeah, but look at the photos in the original article. If they are against racism, why are they all white?

[wintertime]

"That said, the Stuyvesant cuddle puddle is emblematic of the changing landscape of high-school sexuality across the country." ( From the article)

To All,

Stuyvesant? Isn't that the bluest of the "Blue Ribbon" government schools?

Ok,,,,so what's the excuse that parents of Blue Ribbon school attendees are going to use now? That their child's school is OK and wonderful because it is Blue Ribbon?

There is really only one acceptable excuse for sending your precious child to a government school. The only possible acceptable reason is that you are so poor or so dysfunctional you have no other option. If you didn't hand your child over to the government school indoctrinators, armed police and social workers would soon be at your door.

That is the ONLY acceptable reason for sending a child to a government school.

[Coleus]

Principal
Stanley Teitel
Room 105

 

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commissioner Joel Klein

Phone: 212-374-5141
Fax: 212-374-5584

Name	Division	Office Phone
Klein, Joel	Office of the Chancellor	(212) 374-0200

JKlein@nycboe.net

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