Staples and Politics

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Can't wait to compare the Ivy league class acceptance rates of Staples graduating students before and after the admissions scandal.

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Can't wait to compare the Ivy league class acceptance rates of Staples graduating students before and after the admissions scandal.

These types of kids dont hang out at public schools. when you have the money involved with this you are attending private schools. or as the lawyer in greenwich your child is being homeschooled?

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These types of kids dont hang out at public schools. when you have the money involved with this you are attending private schools. or as the lawyer in greenwich your child is being homeschooled?

Kind of, but those prep schools get the admits because of deep connections and smart kids. Were Westport parents given the opportunity to partake in a Varsity Blues set up, no doubt some would.

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Kind of, but those prep schools get the admits because of deep connections and smart kids. Were Westport parents given the opportunity to partake in a Varsity Blues set up, no doubt some would.

Westport are the people who just could not afford Greenwich. They are the most unhappy about this varsity blues thing because it shows they are really part of the 'have nots'. That Skinner guy would not even approach them.

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Westport are the people who just could not afford Greenwich. They are the most unhappy about this varsity blues thing because it shows they are really part of the 'have nots'. That Skinner guy would not even approach them.

HA! You're right!

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Typical attitude: "since I'm not successful and couldn't get into an Ivy the people who are successful and did go to Ivy had unfair advantages".

There are 100k+ students attending Ivys and of course all of them are wealthy Rockefeller heirs and wealthy kids who bribe admissions staff.

Rockefellers, poor and/or minorities. My white, overachieving daughter is none of the above.

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Rockefellers, poor and/or minorities. My white, overachieving daughter is none of the above.

Nailed it. Overachieving white boys also

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All bought and paid for by mums and dad. Other poster is right - you're a WD. Westport Douche.

Oh the entitlement, as the other posters have said you sir are a douche bag.

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That had more to do with him being a perv than his coaching.

sure thing, what about this?

Before his second season at the helm, Cammarota said he was forced to add a captain to his team after a parental complaint reached the administration

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sure thing, what about this?

Before his second season at the helm, Cammarota said he was forced to add a captain to his team after a parental complaint reached the administration

Look at all the nonsense that went on at Wilton. Being an AD in any of those wealthier towns is no picnic.

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Talking like you are Glastonbury and then backing it up with state titles is a start...1989 is not a success for all the talking Staples does. It's pretty simple

So your barometer of success is based solely on wins and bragging?

No wonder you have such disappointment. Narrow minds usually do.

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They certainly can afford to cheat, or pay for the priciest tutors in the state. Sorry but Westport kids aren't any that special. They just think they are.

The fact that Westport has a school that is academically successful is not necessarily a result of the fact that many in Westport are wealthy. Causation and correlation are two very different things.

Everyone is quick to suggest that Westport (and I assume this also applies to NC, Darien, Weston, etc.) can only product lots of high test scores and lots of Ivy admits because everyone can afford to cheat, cut corners, bribe, etc. People seem to think that with 30,000 residents in Westport, every single one of them is a rich, douchy, hedge-fund, helicopter parent. Without any doubt that stereotype is true for a large number of residents of Westport, as well as Wilton, Weston, Darien, NC, Greenwich, etc. However, those towns also have poorer neighborhoods, Section 8 housing, students getting free lunches... and MANY "normal" middle class families who fall somewhere in the middle.

There are plenty of families in those towns who cannot afford tutors, consultants, bribes, etc. Yet somehow their kids still somehow manage to outscore the rest of the state and get into the top schools.

This goes back to simple jealousy. Just because your school is sub-par or your kids will not get into the college you want doesn't mean the kids from Westport all cheat. It just means you moved to the wrong town and your kid spent a bit more time on the soccer field than in the library.

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It just means you moved to the wrong town and your kid spent a bit more time on the soccer field than in the library.

and that is the source of all the vitriol on TC. You have the majority of people on here who spend countless hours driving kids all over the east coast for soccer as well as throwing thousands of dollars at random premier programs and private coaches... all to hopefully help their kid get into a b-level school or possibly get a few pennies of scholarship money.

Meanwhile if a fraction of that time and money was spent on academic endeavors the kid would have top colleges begging them to apply and throwing scholarship money at them to convince them to come.

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and that is the source of all the vitriol on TC. You have the majority of people on here who spend countless hours driving kids all over the east coast for soccer as well as throwing thousands of dollars at random premier programs and private coaches... all to hopefully help their kid get into a b-level school or possibly get a few pennies of scholarship money.

Meanwhile if a fraction of that time and money was spent on academic endeavors the kid would have top colleges begging them to apply and throwing scholarship money at them to convince them to come.

I’m going to have to say negative to that. Lol. Top colleges turn away kids with perfect SAT scores every year. And some kids, no matter how hard they try, are not Ivy League material. It is no different in a classroom than it is on a field. Some kids won’t cut it no matter how hard they try. But by all means, have your kid stress over academics only to not get into the top tier OR second tier school, and be completely ill equipped to handle any social activity. You sound like a jealous dope.

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The fact that Westport has a school that is academically successful is not necessarily a result of the fact that many in Westport are wealthy. Causation and correlation are two very different things.

Everyone is quick to suggest that Westport (and I assume this also applies to NC, Darien, Weston, etc.) can only product lots of high test scores and lots of Ivy admits because everyone can afford to cheat, cut corners, bribe, etc. People seem to think that with 30,000 residents in Westport, every single one of them is a rich, douchy, hedge-fund, helicopter parent. Without any doubt that stereotype is true for a large number of residents of Westport, as well as Wilton, Weston, Darien, NC, Greenwich, etc. However, those towns also have poorer neighborhoods, Section 8 housing, students getting free lunches... and MANY "normal" middle class families who fall somewhere in the middle.

There are plenty of families in those towns who cannot afford tutors, consultants, bribes, etc. Yet somehow their kids still somehow manage to outscore the rest of the state and get into the top schools.

This goes back to simple jealousy. Just because your school is sub-par or your kids will not get into the college you want doesn't mean the kids from Westport all cheat. It just means you moved to the wrong town and your kid spent a bit more time on the soccer field than in the library.

Keep Darien out of this. We don’t have section 8 hood rats