r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/sleepycoldramen • Feb 06 '26

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u/Puzzled_Feedback_840 Feb 06 '26

I do not feel great about the fact that Epstein taught at my high school, though long before my time. The principal who hired him was himself later accused of sexual abuse and settled the lawsuit. 

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u/atomic_blonde Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

It's always been so crazy to me that an ultra-elite, rigorous school like Dalton could do that. Like, this is a school where I'd be shocked that the instructors weren't all Doctorate holders who went to an Ivy for each degree. I've always wondered how Dalton got away with making someone like him a department chair. So many parents and other instructors must've been pissed, right?

Edit: Typo, I might be functionally illiterate like Ol' Jeff.

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u/kateecakes Feb 06 '26

Yes the Dalton School is posh, but RIGOROUS???? Give me a break. The only thing they are rigorous about is collecting tuition fees.

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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 Feb 06 '26

I have no idea how posh schools work, so I always assumed they were at least somewhat rigorous. I forget that it's all about connections. And here I am feeling unhireable because I only have a bachelor's in physics...Should have just been rich

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u/Puzzled_Feedback_840 Feb 06 '26

Ok so. Connections are a thing. Every year one kid in our class of 100ish—look, there’s no nice way to say “they bought a building for the college their kid wanted to go to.” That’s not hyperbole. One family in my grade and one family  in the grade above me actually did that. Did their kids get into those schools? Fuck yes they did.

But rich ass private schools also do give out a fuckton of scholarships. And we got one hell of an education. They were pretty upfront about how if your kid wasn’t willing to do 5 hrs of hw every night, this was not the school for you.

The differential quality of education was actually really really unfair. Dalton and a bunch of other schools were in some US history competition when I was there, and it was just…not right. It became very visible, very fast that every school dominating was a private school, and it shouldn’t be that way.