/lit/ - Literature

I'm a female who attended Miss Porter's School. It is perhaps best known as the school Jackie O. attended.

If you are looking for an education similar to one that you would get at Brown or UC Berkeley, Miss Porter’s School is the kind of education you are looking for. With an emphasis on exemplary writing, you will leave MPS a more polished and structured writer. The school prides itself on it’s special attention to social justice causes (specifically “protected groups”), which is representative of the new, mandatory, courses deeply interwoven into the curriculum that cover topics such as: white privilege, new sociological definitions (racism, power, justice)–and nonstop discussion surrounding the patriarchy. Their proud website motto, “Here, Girls Matter '' rightly sums up MPS’s underlying and very apparent passive aggression towards the world at large. While it is important to understand the history of oppression women have faced, it’s unfortunate that the message, along with past graduation speeches that I have witnessed are concerned with warning girls of the sexism they will inevitably face and the setbacks in life they will endure due to their sex, and, more specifically, at the hands of men. Libertarian and conservative minds are practically nonexistent, and if they are existent, they are silent. At Porter’s this is, to the greatest extent, a vindicated victory. As a proud and true libertarian, my views were neatly squared away as unsympathetic and ignorant. The blatant equating of goodness and radical leftism is inescapable, even in history classes, which I found particularly disturbing. Discussions and debates are also nonexistent as the left sees any opposition as not something worth debunking through argument and truth, but rather, dangerous and evil. Truly a vigilante school with little regard for self -reflection and instead focusing primarily on the indoctrination of a new generation of girls. If your political ideology is on the far left, you will be very comfortable here. However, if your political ideology is center or right, you will feel uncomfortable exercising your critical thinking at the risk of affecting your relations with your teachers or peers.