This past week in AIS, our class has discussed the difference between myth and reality. There are myths created for so many things, like the Rosa Parks myth. Stories fabricated to make them sound more exciting and interesting. The myths that follow me everywhere are the ones about New Trier. The difference about New Trier "myths" is that most of them are true- a reality. What bothers me is that just because a lot of the girls in our school are wealth and have UGGs that I am too, and therefore am "snobby and spoiled" as other schools call us. Over the summer, I worked at a country club with a bunch of Glenbrook South students. When I told them I was from New Trier, they looked at me like I was a martian and every time I mentioned New Trier, they always turned the comment into something about money and wealth. For example, when I talked about New Trier's water polo suits and how they were all leather, one of the workers replied, "Oh..the expensive kind...".
Although we do live in a wealthy district, New Trier shouldn't give other schools a negative connotation. I think other people make up these negative "myths" about New Trier just to have something interesting to say.
What other myths are there about New Trier and why do you think they're made?
1 comment:
There's tons. I was someone who believed them as well before I started teaching here!
On the day I came to visit, I wore a formal suit: I figured I would fit right in -- boy was I wrong!
What should/could be done about this? Maybe others "need" NTHS to be a certain way to confirm their world view. After all, GBS is hardly a low socioeconomic haven!
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