Comments on: School

By: mig

mig — Sun, 25 May 2003 21:18:48 +0000

I’m not saying that the kids were especially snotty or repellant exactly. I’ve known snotty and repellant children in the average public schools I attended. Nor do I think that they abused the privilege they grow up with any more than someone else might… I’m just not sure that they appreciated their special position, that they realized not everyone gets that kind of a start, or that they don’t especially deserve it any more than anyone else might. That they don’t know how lucky they are. Like I said, every kid should go to a good school.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 24 May 2003 22:24:33 +0000

The head-cracking impulse is a good one. Trust me — I was a denizen of one of those schools, but not really a part of that world (my mom was the nurse).

Also, Chris: “Someone, somewhere will do it at some point.” Alas, that is often not the case. Repellant rich kids become repellant rich adults become, say, President of the United States. It’s all very depressing.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 23 May 2003 10:33:09 +0000

No, I always spit the pins back out.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 23 May 2003 08:52:10 +0000

I know the public school systems’ budgets are way too small for what they need to accomplish, but… maybe we could orchestrate promotional tie-ins, where every kid gets a goodie bag from Sebastian or Aveda?

Also: did you swallow a pin?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 22 May 2003 20:58:17 +0000

Priveleged rich kids sooo need their swollen little heads bashed together- as a Public Service if nothing else. Someone, somewhere will do it at some point. Having gone to a private school myself for 12 years, my father helped ‘keep it real’ by getting me a job loading and driving a truck over summer vacations… for my perspective on life.