Long and well written article that could be summarized in one sentence:
Nice kids lose to street thugs every time.
True. But from the stories the mainstream media dig up about Bushes or Romney every election, it sounds like the old single-sex prep schools could be pretty nasty places.
Maybe they still are to judge from the scandal stories that periodically surface at elite schools, but the expectation is always that nothing's really ever going to hurt the elite, so students and graduates don't come to terms with some of life's basic realities.