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...Noah I. Dauber's "Let Boarding Schools Bow Out Gracefully" (opinion, Nov. 16) gives a distorted, unfounded and altogether ignorant account of modern boarding schools. While he criticizes David Hicks (the former rector of the boarding school I attended, St Paul's) for demonizing the self-interests of teenagers, Dauber himself portrays all boarding school students as conceited, arrogant, "fleece-wearing friends" from suburbia. Furthermore, Dauber confuses Hicks' view of boarding schools with the general purpose of those schools, and thus concludes erroneously that boarding schools will, in the near future, "bow out gracefully" as schools become more liberal...
Contrary to what Mr. Hicks implies in the American Scholar, boarding schools do not exist as holding grounds for uncooperative and malfunctioning adolescents. Dauber argues, "Sure, if adolescents are really awful, then maybe, just maybe, Hicks' beloved boarding schools have some reason for sticking around." But Dauber seems to believe that Hicks represents some common view of boarding schools' purpose. Make no mistake: Hicks is alone in his quest for a reactionary schools; it should be noted that after four years of battling students, faculty and the trustees, Mr. Hicks realized he could not bring St. Paul's back...
Hicks resigned under pressure and without implementing his vision -- or re-vision -- for St. Paul's School. His resignation hasn't spelled doom for boarding schools; rather, his failure is an affirmation that St. Paul's rejects Dauber's snob image and seeks to grow and diversify. In fact, during all the turmoil that surrounded Hicks' rectorship, the school remained popular and applications flowed in in growing numbers...
...Blair, Adam D. Borchert, Michelle K. Borras, Annabel L. Bradford, Abigail R. Branch, William W. Burke-White, Sewell Chan, Chen-Chen Chang, Hsin Chau, Julie A. Chen, Victor T. Chen, Van L. Cheng, Jaehyuk Choi, Angeline Y. Chong, Charlotte J. Chui, Megan P. Coffee, Daniel S. Cohan, Noah I. Dauber, Wu L. Dennis, Ryan H. Dougherty, Agnes Dunogue, Andrew C. Elito, David O. Ellis, David F. Elmer, Michael H. Feferman, Noah R. Feinstein and Stephanie Firos...
...Dauber, a former Crimson editor, served as chair of Hillel while at Harvard, in addition to working as editor in chief of Mosaic, a journal of Jewish studies, and directing a play, "The Nerd...