[S1E7] One Of Your Own

When Churchill entered, I thought Elizabeth was about to give him the same treatment that Salisbury got, but she proved herself even more of a Queen. She showed him compassion. She pulls out her notes from her childhood lesson and gently lectures him. Then Elizabeth asks an ailing Churchill if he is still fit enough for office and when he opens his mouth when she's barely done talking she chides, "I would ask you to consider your response in light of the respect that my rank and my office deserve not that which my age and gender might suggest." Spoken like royalty.

[S1E7] One of Your Own

At the Cattleman's Association dinner, Dutton gives a speech about how ranching is the only profession in which your grandest hope is to break even every year and then pass it on to your kids. I believe this may be true for 98% of ranchers but it's pretty rich coming from Dutton, who's richer than Croesus and Midas combined. But it makes for a pretty speech. John's in a bad mood anyway because not one of his children, not one, showed up for his speech. And in a troubling sign of things to come, even his paramour Governor Perry doesn't come over to talk to him.

"I'm your Aunt," Beth tells him. She also says the only thing she can "cook" is a cheese plate. Tate doesn't like the sound of a cheese plate, so she suggests they go to see what the bunkhouse boys are having for supper.

Is there hope for Fallon and Cristal to get along and be friends? Or was it just in light of the holiday spirit? What are Steven and Jeff getting themselves into? Will Cecil Colby be making a dramatic return from prison? What about Cristal and Blake wanting to have a baby? Let us know what you think in the comments below! Be sure to check with Pure Fandom daily for all your entertainment needs!

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And I think when you go across not just the income spectrum, but when you're dealing with families for whom college was not something in their history, this resource becomes even more acutely important. And so great that this story is calling attention to it, challenging because the resources in a lot of these districts are just not there. And so I think there's an opportunity to rethink well, is there a partnership colleges might make, or the independent schools might make with their local overworked public schools. I don't know, but you've put your finger on something really important.

Lee Coffin:So I'm pairing Boston and Atlanta. Happily, they didn't meet in the World Series. Sherri is a bit of a baseball nut, so that would've added a whole Red Sox, Braves thing that we avoided. So what's interesting about both of you, like so many college counselors, you were both college admission officers. Sherri worked at Brandeis for 11 years and then went to Dana Hall as a college counselor now at Gann, which is a Jewish day school in the Boston area. So you've got that double perspective. And Ronnie and I met many years ago when he was an admission officer at Presbyterian College in the nineties, and then an admission officer at Emory where he worked through 2012 before becoming a college counselor. It's like you go through a conversion process. You go from college admissions to college counseling. And tell me about that. What's it like to take your experience as an admission officer and plug into a school setting and work so directly with kids and parents?

Lee Coffin:Yeah. I worked at Milton for a couple of years in admissions, not in college counseling, but I had that same epiphany of oh, these are kids and when they present themselves as applicants, they're young adults by that point. But the journey from nine to 12 has a lot of bumps. And I think you see those bumps up close and personal from your respective desks. I mean, the thing that I'm always struck by when I see Sherri's posts is it's a reminder of the anxiety that bubbles, not even below the surface, above the surface of the admission process and the doubt that people have, the parental worry that envelopes itself around this work that I see, but I don't feel it I think as directly as you do.

Sherri Geller:I've also found that there are some things I really miss about admissions and other times that I find myself really critical of admissions. How I worked in admissions, not so much was electronic as it is now and web-based and social media and whatever. We used to send admissions decisions by mail, and so a student would get home from school and check the mail and find out what the decision was. And now there are schools that have countdown clocks that we're going to release your decision in 14 hours, 13 hours, 12 hours. Well, they can't pay attention all day that day because they're watching that countdown clock. Or schools that release decisions suddenly at 1:00 in the afternoon, students get an email saying, your decision's ready. Well, they're in the middle of math class and so now they're checking their decision. And next thing you know they're walking out of math to come to my office to go call their mother or whatever they're going to do. And the whole class is disrupted by that happening.

And I've mentioned this on occasion to colleagues. It has gotten better. More schools are releasing it night now even have different ways of doing it. But somebody in one admissions office said to me, "Well, why are they checking your email in the middle of math class?" I said, "Have you ever met a teenager? Or they're on their phones constantly. Or, well, we have to release them all at the same time or it's not fair to the kids in Hawaii." I said, "Well, but we do everything else in time zones, how is this something that in order to get everybody in a certain day, my students are hearing in the middle of math class." And it actually really frustrates me between these countdown clocks and how we release decisions that there is such buildup. But the buildup is great for the kids who get in, although anxiety provoking along the way.

Lee Coffin:Yeah. I totally agree with you. And in your intro, I forgot to mention you're now the past president of the New England Association of College Admission Counselors. So about five years ago, you were our leader in New England. And I think in that role and in our broader national organization, I keep wondering when will we all hold hands and say, you can stop this. This is something we control. It's not just an accident that it's happening. I mean, social media, I think it's an octopus with lots of tentacles. So there's some things we can't control, but this we can, when the decision is released and how we also reference it. I think you're right. The confetti... especially if you're in a very selective place where they're more nos than yeses and being mindful of that and the impact it has in high school and a family.

Lee Coffin:All right. So let's talk about Sherri's prolific posts on Facebook. Speaking of social media, I will own up, I am a friend of Sherri and Ronnie on Facebook. Your post today in college counseling land, that would happen every day or even every week, there's a pattern to them that I watched and it started in the summer, it built as we moved into the fall. And they were always commentary that made me smile, and sometimes on occasion, I would spit up my coffee. I've broken your post into four categories and I just wanted to talk about these four thematic areas that seem to be on your mind as you navigate the world of college counseling. And I welcome Ronnie to chime in on any of these as they come up.

Lee Coffin:And the question says, "What do you most want a college admission counselor to know about your child?" And the answer was, "Although my daughter has shown progress with academics and confidence through high school, she sets low expectations for herself and does not push herself to do more." And your comment then was, "I think you misread the question." So that was just a really funny one where I thought that was charming.

And then as I've also become more their age and also just having more experience working with them, I really place much more value despite the fact that I sometimes have these funny posts, just a reminder over and over again, how much every parent just wants to do right by their kid and have their kid be successful. And one of the questions on that questionnaire to students is what do your parents expect of you? And, oh my goodness, probably three-quarters of the students at some point in that answer say something like my parents just want me to be happy. And we could go on and on about what that means, but that's really where the parents are coming from in saying these things; please just help me and help my kid get into their favorite school because we just want them to be happy.

Sherri Geller:For some students and families, yes. When we talk about fit, I like to talk about things that don't involve prestigious selectivity and let's find the right type of place. Is it a place that's in New Hampshire or in the woods, or is it in the downtown of a major city and there's such a big difference. But for some families, part of finding fit is finding a place that has a certain level of prestige that also may have those other things. And Ronnie, I'm guessing in your community, that's similar? 041b061a72