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...higher education, schools follow a general-education model that marches students through an increasingly uniform curriculum, with admission to college as the goal. But what happens when a 17-year-old decides, rightly or wrongly, that her road in life doesn't pass through college? Then the college-prep exercise becomes a charade. At Shelbyville High School, as elsewhere, the general-education model became an all-or-nothing game that left far too many students with nothing...
...protagonist, Marian Gilbert, is thirteen at the outset of the book. She is lonely, but only half-aware of that fact. She attends a small girls’ prep school on the Upper East Side, and feels lost in a “fog,” since she doesn’t fit in there. The other eighth graders are wealthier, with society parents and homes on Park Avenue, and they know how to play “prison ball” in gym class...
...sorest points is the air of privilege surrounding Duke's lacrosse team. Lacrosse, originated by Native Americans, is a rapidly growing sport in the U.S., but it has historically been a game of the privileged and protected, played at lite prep schools and colleges and at public schools located mostly in wealthy areas. A favorite slogan at Duke: "There's only one fraternity on campus--LAX [the nickname for lacrosse]." Fifteen members of the team have committed prior, mostly frat-jock infractions, ranging from public urination to noise violations...
...magisterial that the inevitable Falstaff comparison seems inadequate. All that saffron in the soup--that's where he's showing weakness, I decided. So busy being a star that he's sloppy in the kitchen. To test the theory, back in Chicago I had sneaked into the prep area after Batali had left the crowd standing in applause. I found a cook named Kirsten West who had prepped the ingredients for the demo. "How's the soup?" I asked...
...Really tight” is an understatement, according to Katherine Cohen, Viswanathan’s guidance counselor at the IvyWise college prep program...