I work at this prep school. I read the article, and while I am MORE than happy to see the school featured in the New York Times, I have some reservations about how they portrayed the kids. The Editor seemed to feel that our purpose here was to whitewash the kids in some way, which is just untrue.
We're just tryin to get them out of the hood!
Prep Schools Flocking to Recruit Products of a Newark Education
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Published: March 31, 2004
NEWARK
EIGHTH graders applying to prestigious, $30,000-a-year private boarding schools are usually very nervous this time of year, waiting to hear. But in mid-March, as Devin Desir, a 13-year-old, checked the mail for letters from a half-dozen prep school admissions offices, he seemed positively calm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/ed...education.html