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NY Prep Schools Ban Students from Announcing Acceptance Into Ivy League Schools… to Protect Other Students

New York Prep Schools Ban Students from Saying They Got Into Ivy League SchoolsNEW YORK (NewsCore)– New York prep schools are instituting dress codes and Facebook guidelines barring excited seniors from broadcasting their acceptance to top-tier colleges because it may hurt the feelings of classmates who were unsuccessful.

At the hypercompetitive Horace Mann School, students are not permitted to wear college apparel, including status Ivy League sweatshirts, on campus until after May 1, when most students have settled on what school they will attend.

And at the Packer Collegiate Institute, students are instructed not to update Facebook with university news until after school lets out.

At the private Calhoun School, seniors have a weekly class with the college guidance counselor, in which they discuss “the appropriate way to share news of acceptance,” said Sarah Tarrant, director of college counseling.

“The weekly conversation reins in kids who might run around yelling, ‘I got in! I got in!’”

The city’s selective public high schools are also implementing rules to save the egos of students forced to attend “safety schools.”

“It can be bad and it can get weird,” said Darby McHugh, college coordinator at Bronx High School of Science.

“We send a notice out to all faculty telling them, ‘Please don’t congratulate students in public, no high fives, no hugging, and please be sensitive so that if you see someone crying, you refer them to the college-adviser office immediately.’”

Not everyone agreed with the move, however, with Dean Skarlis, president of the College Advisor of New York, saying, “Kids need to experience disappointment. We coddle them a little too much.

“At some point, they won’t get a job, or they’ll get fired. If I were head of a school, I would shy away from that sort of policy.”

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:06am

    Waaaah. These are the useful tools of the Left . Protected from the realities of life. Unable to bear criticism or failure. Hating ” competition.” That is why we see all of the little arrogant Lefties who comment here. They are brainwashed and denied the realities of survival of the fittest. That is why they love a Big Brother to protect them from life’s difficulties . Unfortunately, Big Brother comes with a whole set of difficulties starting with ” no individual rights.“ These are the ”anti-capitlaists ” hoodie wearing zombies who will be marching in the brainwashed crowds of Occupiers…. blindly MIC checking the parroted phrases of Big Brother …now repeat after me …repeat after me…

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    • JRook
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:08am

      @barber2 “These are the useful tools of the Left” So you actually think the top tier prep schools in NYC are controlled and/or driven by the left. You think the parents of the kids attending these schools are left liberals. This and other ideological driven misunderstandings and misrepresentations that would seem to influence your thinking is exactly why these types of blogs, biased reports, and associated absurd posts are nothing more than laughable.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:45am

      Well Jrook, your “absurd posts are nothing more than laughable”, that’s for sure.

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    • woebegone
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:54am

      Jrook–Sorry to the one to clue you in, but I went a very prestigious prep school and the truth is that the limousine liberals have taken over these venerable institutions just as they have colleges. Do you really think all rich people are conservative and all poor ones are liberal? Do you think all cats are girls and all dogs are boys, too?

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    • rsanchez1
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:53am

      Jrook, were you hurt as a kid when you couldn’t get into any of the liberal bastions that are the Ivy League? Did this hurt make you feel that schools so hateful as to not include you must not be liberals, but must be evil conservatives? If so, GET OVER IT.

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:37pm

      JR, my kids attended some “upper crust” schools in DE. Hard core limousine liberals. It was sickening.

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    • gtav
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 5:20pm

      well said

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    • Leopold
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 2:30am

      These people are NUTS.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:08pm

      Spread the wealth – er I mean grades and then you won’t have this problem. Can you imagine poor Jack who has partied every night and just barley passed and his friend Fred worked on the books each night and how bad Jack is going to feel when he finds out about Fred getting invited to Harved. Colleges need to feel sympthy for kids that were wealthy and able to party and visit the best whores money could buy. Look at all the jobs Jack was providing to the community. Give at least one of Freds grades to Jack.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:04am

    “It can be bad and it can get weird,” said Darby McHugh, college coordinator at Bronx High School of Science.”
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    Well,it got this way because of the cream puff liberals shoving PC and entitlements down our throats.
    This is nothing but thought control. I’d be telling them to pack it.

    This is just as bad as scoreless T-Ball games.

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  • theshortwhiteguy
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:03am

    I am teaching my 3 boys to be “adequate” in life – that way they are neither let up or let down in life. They have been instructed to approach their peers and give an appropriate response like “have an adequate day”. My little snowflakes will be adequately equipped for life!

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  • Coonrapids
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:49am

    No fair some one is smarter than me and will make more money than me. Please tell the democRATES to pass a law to help me.

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  • BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:48am

    FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!!!!! It is being ripped out of your grasp. Little by little, the ability to freely express yourself is being taken away. Seriously…….you can‘t openly celebrate good news in public until the school tells you it’s o.k. Question…..what does the school do if a person gives a high five or a hug before the acceptable date? What happens if emotions get the best of you and you crack a smile and jump a little? What if someone who didn’t get accepted sees you and turns you in? What will they do to you? Reprimand? Community service? How about jail time for the most serious offender. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!!

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  • Hondo814
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:39am

    WOW, for years these types of schools have touted their success in getting their students into the most selective schools in the country. Our daughters went to a highly respected private independent school and every year the school puts out a list of the schools their students were accepted at in the local newspaper. The school had a chalk board in the hallway and they would list student‘s acceptances announcing student’s name and school they got into on a daily basis. Our daughters have all graduated and all have been accepted into top colleges. I am calling today parents of current students to see if they have changed their policy regarding sharing where they have been accepted. We were told when we first looked at the school that the school is for leaders and it promotes critical thinking. Leaders are successful and should not be told to hid their accomplishments.

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:39am

    This American mediocrity was Obammy approved.

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  • HKS
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:31am

    Now you know that Exceptionalisim is not accepted here, a trophy for everyone ya know. How else can we get the loosers into the white house.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:24am

      have a feeling that Affirmative Action might have played a role in this . No one can fail because that would be ” racist.” Which is exactly why we see the thin skinned, arrogance of the Blame Bush crowd..

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:30am

    So what are they going to do if the students ignore the ban and celebrate anyway? Take their acceptance away and force them to go to a community college? This is just horsesh** on so many levels it isn’t funny.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:37am

      the real manure to me about this story is this is a prep school. if these silver spoons cannot get into a great college after mommy and daddy shell out huge amounts of cash they deserve to be laughed out of the school not coddled.

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    • sgt1010
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:26pm

      @horsecrazy I send my 13 year old to a highly regarded private school, I am not rich, I work 3 jobs to send him there because he is smart and I know he will come out of that school ready to take on the world. This school teaches kids to be leaders, not followers or whiners. They teach their kids to work hard to succeed and that it is your responsibility to acheive not to whine and you will be taken care of. His best friend goes to our local middle school and actually had a substitute teacher break the class into groups of kids with divorced parents, single parents, adopted kids, immigrants etc. I am glad I am working my ass off so he is not indoctrinated by some liberal thinker.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:30am

    What will they learn about the real world being protected like that? Nothing!

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:45am

      And that‘s the point our government is hell bent on making everyone ’equal’,it’s the hallmark of a failed society.

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  • dmforman
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:29am

    This is so sad. I remember back 20 odd years ago when I was a senior. We celebrated the acceptances of each other. Yes there was sadness if we were rejected from a school where someone else was accepted to, but that’s life. It helped teach me to deal with reality.

    We are setting our kids up for not being able to handle the reality of our world. It’s almost as if these prep school administrators are part of the Marxist/socialist movement and getting these kids ready to start the mantra of everything being “fair.” I see future occupiers in the making.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:29am

    We’re creating a bunch of candyasses taught to be afraid of their own shadow,we needn‘t fear any foreign enemy because we’re destroying ourselves from within.

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:29am

    Can we combine New York and California and sell them to Europe.

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:51am

      Heck with selling them give them away

       
  • soljavsnbppseiu
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:23am

    Friggin morons… sadly this type of thing is spreading at an alarming rate… people aren’t always successful… look kid if you didn’t get in then TFB!!!… it happens… thats life…. oh booo hoooo you can’t go to Yale….whaaaaa you have to go to Brown instead… oh the shame!!!….. please. the rest of us had to struggle and fight to get into lowly old community colleges or trade schools or the dreaded ….dun dun dun… state schools…. I went to a community school and i worked my butt off to pay for it and it led me to a good honest job in a good company… it allowed me to get married and start a family and have a decent home… and they are crying because someone else got their spot…
    these teachers and administrators are training millions of kids to be freaking cry babies…look kids if you reach a wall you knock it down or go over it… you dont fall at the base an cry… thats not how life works… the more we teach these kids to be babies the more our society will weaken…its a jungle out there… and the lions are going to eat the weak… sorry if thats too harsh… just a fact.

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  • momrules
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:18am

    So the message is ………….don’t be happy that your hard work and dedication paid off.
    Hide your pride in your own accomplishments.
    Pamper the feelings of others so they don’t get hurt while yours get trampled on.

    Trophys for everyone! !

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  • tzion
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:17am

    You know, when I applied to college, I had received two acceptances from schools with rolling admission before anybody had received early decision acceptances. That was all the way back in December or November. Under this rule I couldn’t spread the news for over half a year.

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  • layla
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:17am

    are these teachers going to follow these kids around their whole lives to save them from every possible disappointment??? this is not just stupid, it’s wrong.

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  • Mike from Houston
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:15am

    Have we (the United States) lost our minds ? ? ? ? ?

    We like to think we are descendents of those hardy individualists who founded this country. But looking at this story proves we are nothing of the sort. This is Political Correctness gone mad.

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    • NanAugie
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:59am

      That’s one of the problems….we bring in hundreds of thousands of people who have done nothing but happened to be in the right country at the right time. The flavor of the month changes from time to time, but one thing remains constant – the fact that many of those we bring in have done nothing to earn the right except to breath in a country that we feel is worse that ours. For many life in America was offered to them – the DNA that made America great has been so watered down it’s hardly detectable any more.
      In this America you can no longer assume that America will rise above cause it’s in our DNA – that has been purposely taken away from us by our Government actively seeking to bring those who disagree with our founding principles into this country in large numbers.

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  • tzion
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:14am

    What’s next? Teachers can’t tell students they did poorly on a test? They get rid of award ceremonies?

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:13am

    sorry, NO TROPHY for you loser

    this is getting a bit redonkulous

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:12am

    .
    OK Mom, Dad I’m gonna need a Air plane pulling a banner, a band, Tee Shirts, a Billboard, bumper stickers, and a whole string of Hooter Girls……..

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:11am

    No free speech, wouldnt want to hurt some little baby’s feelings. Makes no difference if the real world is going to eat them alive later and they become welfare recipients because they were told they were so special. They got their participation award in soccer…They are set for life now arent they???

    We have raised a nation of panty waisted sissies that expect the world to not hurt them. They believe they have a right to my money if they decide they want to sit on their butts. A bunch of spineless pukes.No please dont hurt their little feelings. they may take a gun and put it in their mouths.

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:09am

    This a joke….Right? You work your but off for 12 years but aren’t allowed to celebrate your achievements?? PC is going to destroy us.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:24am

      I’m getting tired of the winning team celebrating after the Super Bowl. I think next year we should just declare both teams winners before the game, have a Madonna concert and call it all good. Look how bad the Pats fans felt after the last game. It’s just not right.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:35am

      That won’t work. What about the rest of the NFL teams???? Are they at least invited to the concert?? Madonna is white you know. Are you a rac…………..

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    • woebegone
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:49am

      Also why is it only female performers get to have wardrobe malfunctions? Aren’t the male performers set up for feeling inadequate? Vive la uniformite!!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:09am

    The pussification of America is almost complete.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:37am

      Hell when I was a boy we played baseball and we actually had a winning team and a losing team,imagine that.We would get in fights all the time bloody nose black eye and the next day we would play ball again,no lawsuits no counseling for hurt feelings or parents getting involved wanting to arrest someone.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:06am

      That‘s why you’re such a hatefu,l conservative, capitalist today Slayer.

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  • imsteph
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:08am

    this is pathetic.
    there is something very wrong with these people.
    they are broken.
    they have fallen and can‘t get up and refuse to acknowledge anyone else’s success.

    i will say it again…pathetic.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:06am

      It began with awarding every child trophy whether they were on a winning team or not. How would you know… no one keeps score. It ends with an affirmative action president. Well, if it is not the end, it is beginning of the end…

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