UrbanBaby

07.08.08, 18:27 PM New York City
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If TT private education is so good, why is it that most of the TT graduates I know are vapid status seeking idiots? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
New York City 07.08.08, 06:27 PM Flag

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obviosly your circle of friends? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.08.08, 06:29 PM Flag

but they're well educated. Whether they are or become vapid status seeking idiots has nothing to do with education. You obviously have not been to t TT school. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.08.08, 06:36 PM Flag

Of course it does, especially when the peer group is all about $$$$. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.08.08, 06:43 PM Flag

I went to a TT and am neither vapid nor status seeking, thanks. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.08.08, 06:38 PM Flag

vapid, non TT grad here. Any questions? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.08.08, 07:42 PM Flag

that's what being a teenager is about [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 10:15 AM Flag

sorry, trailer trash here- what;s TT? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 10:17 AM Flag

lol [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 11:45 AM Flag

I don't know about vapid and idiots, but it's true that few become accomplished and well-known, outside their parents' purview [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 02:45 PM Flag

Yo-yo Ma and Judith Warner?? (just off the top of my head--I could really research this, if you like). More kids graduate from Stuyvesant High School in one year than in a decade at many private school, so the numbers will be fewer, of course. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:04 PM Flag

I'll give you Judith Warner but Yo-Yo Ma was a child prodigy long before attending Trinity. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:19 PM Flag

Wikipedia has Dalton's notable alumni - a very long list. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:21 PM Flag

And among the post-1960s alums, who do you admire or like the most? Anderson Cooper? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:38 PM Flag

I used to like him before he replaced Aaron Brown. Not so into him anymore though personally, I think he's hot and funny. Hmm.. Chevy Chase? Or that chess whiz guy - Bobby Fisher? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:48 PM Flag

>Daniel Han or some guy was nominated by TIME's movers and shakers who changed the world or something like that. Invented multi touch screen something. I enjoyed John King's use of the interactive screen for the primary nights, so maybe him. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:50 PM Flag

np - Did you really enjoy John King's use of it? I thought it was stupid and worthless. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:52 PM Flag

I actually did... a bit of a political junkie plus a gadget geek. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:57 PM Flag

Bobby Fischer actually went to a Brooklyn public HS - Erasmus HS - at the same time as Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:51 PM Flag

He attended Dalton as well. Not sure from which grade to which grade, but. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:52 PM Flag

Bobby Fischer did? Or are you thinking of Josh Waitzkin? [ Reply | More

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General Topics 07.09.08, 04:54 PM Flag

BF did, wasn't a lifer, though. [ Reply | More