The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School

New York ^ | January 30, 2006 | Alex Morris

[finnman69]

Molly and Alair at Nathan's apartment.

[TenaciousZ]

It attracts the brightest public-school students in New York, and that may be an environment conducive to fewer sexual inhibitions. “In our school,” Elle says, “people are getting a better education, so they’re more open-minded.”

Uhhhh ... OK. Conversely, then, any qualms can be chalked up to simply being stupid. This is where I stopped reading. What did I miss?

[finnman69]

[Petronski]

Does anyone else suspect (as I do) that this might be exaggerated or fictionalized?

[barj]

HEY FOLKS! Go to the table of contents for this mag and look at all of the other freaky stories! This is some weird homo/NAMBLA mag of some sort.

[lnbchip]

This is what happens when parents abandon guiding the lives of their children in the right paths. These parents will tell you that they are just letting the kids "find themselves". Actually, they are just too lazy to take the time to give their kids a little direction. These kids are out of control and the parents are too lazy and detached to care or do anything about it. It makes me sick. I spend a lot of my time at home giving little lessons to my 5 kids on any number of subjects. I might be tired, but when I need to handle something, I do it. I'll be damned if my kids will go off experimenting with all manner of hell on Earth - destroying their lives and the lives of their friends and family without me intervening.

[Dr. Thorne]

The interesting thing is that these deluded children call themselves "bi-" but indulge in very few actual relationships. Nothing about these kids has to do with their hearts, only their libidos.

Like most teenagers, they are spending a lot of time masturbating, but, since the constraints of propriety have fallen for them (or never been erected in the first place), they are simply using each other to do it. They are indulging in an immature, selfish circle jerk.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Dude...if this really is the predominant motif in all our schools

You apparently were distracted by all the titillating teen hormone stuff, and missed the fact that these are extremely smart, extremely well-educated kids, who are well on their way to being very productive adults who don't feed at the government trough. Unfortunately, that is NOT the "predominant motif in all our schools".

[finnman69]

It's New York magazine, generally screamingly trendy and liberal. Very gay friendly.

[HitmanLV]

Well, I'd put it more like 'Bonx Sci is a magnet school like Stuy.' Stuy used to be the rolls royce of the public schools in nyc. I suspect it still is highly regarded.

To be fair, I was never that impressed with it - I was accepted to Stuy for the Class of '86, but when I visited the place I was unimpressed, mostly with the fellow students, but also with the facility was also very dumpy at the time (though the new facility is extraordinary).

See, I was even very hard to please at the tender age of 14. ;-)

I opted to attend Regis HS, which was a better decision. To be fair, most graduates of Regis and Stuy I know work in cubicles or small offices, and are terrified of middle managers. So much for the best & brightest. :-)

[barj]

Try fantasised. This is some odd ball's fantasy.

[NathanR]

Meanwhile, they're getting the kind of educations that are necessary to keep the U.S. as the leading economic power in the world.

That may be true of the nerds. However, I think that the cuddle puddle will clutter up HR departments and bureaucracies throughout the land.

[barj]

Yeah, but they had an excellent article on skinny pants!

[joseph20]

Where is the discipline at this school? These childrenshouldn't be allowed to behave this way!

[JamesP81]

At least it's only 2 dozen out of the 3000. It seems like the good people keep getting better and the bad people keep getting worse.

I am profoundly happy that the population of the blue states is declining and the population of the red states is increasing.

[GovernmentShrinker]

No. But it's a very lopsided view of these kids lives. Kids who are attending a school like Stuyvesant, and doing well, spend the vast majority of their waking hours poring over calculus and chemistry books, prepping for SATs, sitting in class paying very close attention and taking careful notes, etc. The wild hijinks that this article devotes 95% of its space to, occupy only about 5% of the space in these kids lives. And all the posters wailing "Oh how awful, civilization is coming to end", are going to be in for a rude shock 15-20 years down the road, when their kids are applying to these kids for jobs.

[Zeppo]

Yep... Is this another Jayson Blair moment in the making?

[Chanticleer]

It's definitely not just New York. In Florida, I've heard that lesbianism is "in", even in middle schools. Forget homosexual, bi-sexual or heteroflexible -- this is hedonism.

I can't help but think of Romans 1:24-28:

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Somebody needs to do a fact check on this story. My guess is that our author is projecting his own homo-erotic fantasies onto the characters here.

I couldn't agree more. My BS meter went off immediately. Why would any school allow this crap to go on?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Um, no. This is a very mainstream NYC magazine.