How crazy can you get? Exeter Academy breeding ground for terrorism

OK, this article is a few months old but it's so batshit crazy that it leaps to the top of the batshit crazy right wing list.

For those that don't know, Phillips Exeter, more commonly known just as Exeter is a prestigious eastern prep school. In the article the genius author initially confused it with Phillips Academy, more commonly known as Andover. Now these schools produce plenty of upper class twits and corporate types (and in all fairness, quite a few well known liberals and progressives) but Islamic terrorists? Er, that's insane.

Academy That Produced Two Presidents Now Terrorist Breeding Ground

(EDITOR’S NOTE: George Bush, Sr., George Bush, Jr., and John F. Kennedy Jr. actually attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts versus Phillips Exeter Academy. However, there is still reason to be concerned about this academy as a possible terrorist breeding ground.)


Meet Maggie Hassan, the Democratic candidate for governor in the state of New Hamphshire. Maggie is married to Thomas Hassan, the principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. For those of you who are not familiar with Phillips Exeter Academy, it is ranked the number six school in the country and has an extremely impressive list of alumni that includes Oliver Wendell Holmes, John F. Kennedy Jr., George Herbert Bush, George W. Bush, and former Florida governor Jeb Bush. And the list goes on: Bill Belichick, coach of New England Patriots; James Spader the actor; Dr. Spock, renowned pediatrician from the 1950’s, and many more. The list is like a “who’s who” of American history, and there is no doubt that the students currently enrolled will have similar power and influence in the decades to come. So what could be the problem with that? The short answer: radical Islam.

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More disturbing than the student group however, is the litany of guest speakers that have been invited to the school since Mr. Hassan joined the staff back in 1989. They include Ahmed Bedier of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), who spoke to PEA assemblies in 2006 and 2009. Many may recall that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation Trial, the largest terrorism trial in American history. As the New Hampshire Herald article points out: :Its charter calls for the destruction of Israel. CAIR has funneled large sums of money to Hamas. Among those tied to CAIR are Ismail Royer, Bassem Khafagi, Ghassan Elashi, Musa Abu Marzook, Imam Siraj Wahaj and Rabih Haddad – all considered to be jihadist promoters.”

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http://www.westernjournalism.com/academy-that-produced-two-presidents-now-terrorist-breeding-ground/


The school: (and wouldn't it be great if all our kids could have this kind of educational environment?)

lasses at Exeter are held Monday through Saturday, although Wednesday and Saturday are half days. Exeter uses an 11-point grading system, in which an A is worth 11 points and an E is worth 0 points. Exeter has a student-to-teacher ratio of about 5:1.[22] A majority of the faculty have advanced degrees in their fields.[23]

Students are required to take courses in the arts, classical or modern languages, computer science, English, health & human development, history, mathematics, religion, and science. Most students obtain an English diploma, but students who specialize in Latin and Ancient Greek can obtain a classical diploma.[24]

There is a long tradition of prizes, usually allotted at the Prize Day assembly. Exceptions are Graduation Day awards, the Lamont Young Poet Award, and national awards.
Harkness teaching method

Most classes at Exeter are taught around Harkness tables. No classrooms have rows of chairs, and lectures are virtually nonexistent.

At Exeter, math teachers assign problems from workbooks that have been written collectively by the Academy's math department. From these custom workbooks, students are assigned word problems as homework. In class, students present their solutions of the problems at the board. In math class at Exeter, students are not given theorems, model problems, or principles beforehand. Instead, students learn theorems and principles as they work through the word problems.

The completion of the Phelps Science Center in 2001 meant that all science classes, which previously had been taught in more conventional classrooms, could also be conducted around the same Harkness tables.[25]

Classes at Exeter are small, with only 8–12 students in each class. Small class sizes and the Harkness tables enable all students to participate. These Harkness classes feature heavily in Exeter's identity and its day-to-day life.

Elements of the Harkness method, including the Harkness table, can now be found at academic institutions across the globe.[26][27]

Currently, the Exeter student body includes students from 46 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and 35 countries. Students of non-European descent comprise 37% of the student body (Asian 20%, Black 9%, Hispanic/Latino 7%, Native American 0.6%). Legacy students account for 13% of the students. Of new students entering in 2012 (a total of 340), 54% attended public school and 46% attended private, parochial, military, home, or foreign schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy