Patrick Glendon McCullough
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Patrick Glendon McCullough
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With declining birth rates, fewer high schoolers will apply to college in the coming decades. “If my kid does want to attend college in 2035, how many schools will she actually have to choose from?” Jay Caspian Kang asks. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3nSh6i

That's one way to look at it. Another is "my dumb kid is gettin' into Harvard!!"

9 years ago
Clock tower with a weather vane against a blue sky and clouds
I always felt deprived by the rather dreary utilitarian architecture of my Oklahoma schools. Still in awe of Averill's. It says a lot about what education and children meant to the community who built this as the centerpiece of their sleepy little town. Also, I wish we still had the WPA.
9 years ago
Smiling child wearing a striped blazer and red tie, with an adult's hands in the background
Dapper Sam, ready for Sunday School.
9 years ago
Counting. He makes it look easy!
10 years ago
Two children dressed in black costumes sit on hay bales next to pumpkins, one holding a bag labeled "Chipotle
Bats at #sunysullivantot
11 years ago
Group of people in a church taking photos with smartphones, stained glass windows visible in the background
School performance, 2015
11 years ago
Child lying on the floor with a backpack near a banner that reads "St. Peter's Regional School, Liberty, NY
Averill's PreK drop offs are literal.
13 years ago
What kind of moron pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to a medical school when you can just Google "how to hart surgery"?
13 years ago
The top schools I want to apply to are Oxford and the Sorbonne. But my safety's Harvard.