{"id":5922,"date":"2021-04-11T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2021-04-11T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:07:16","slug":"talking-the-talk-without-walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/2021\/04\/11\/talking-the-talk-without-walking-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking the Talk without Walking the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We\u2019ve all heard the expression \u201cwalk the walk if you are going to talk the talk\u201d \u2013 a person (or organization) should support what they say, not just with words, but also through action. Yet, most of the schools participating in the globally elite study preach core values of community and honesty but when digging deeper into the student and alumni interviews, it quickly becomes apparent that the core values which are so heavily broadcasted to the world are not the same as the values the school is actually instilling into their students. More specifically, as I read through the interviews of students who attend the Croft School \u2013 an extremely elite, private school located in Chile \u2013 I noticed a large disconnect between the advertised values of the school and the realities which the students revealed throughout their interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the Croft School, they speak without acting, yet, Dwight from The Office<\/em> knows the real truth… (Image source: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/v7zdn5<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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When visiting the Croft School\u2019s website it is quickly understood that essential to the Croft school\u2019s mission is the Croftonian profile which embraces the principles of fair play, all-rounded, good manners, spirit of service, team spirit, joy of learning. The foundation of the Grangonian profile revolves around the shared values of empathy, honesty, humility, loyalty, compassion, and respect. Throughout their website, these values are clearly communicated in multiple different articles, infographics, and images. There is no missing the fact that team spirit, service, and community are key aspects of their culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these publicized values on the internet, the students’ accounts of Croft\u2019s values did not seem to match those that the school advertised so heavily.\u00a0 For example, when asked what the values of the school were, Alejandro (a student at the Croft School; a pseudonym) responded with\u00a0 \u201cthey emphasize a lot of fair play and community service but I feel like those values have been lost a lot. Like now they focus a lot about good behavior. Like that\u2019s all they focus a lot on now. Like they\u2019re being really strict. And good manners. They care about good manners.\u201d While Alejandro may have a general knowledge of what the school\u2019s intended values are, he reveals that those values are absent in the school\u2019s current culture. Furthermore, when asked about whether or not the school has a focus on service he hesitates before saying \u201cThey try to but it doesn\u2019t work sometimes because there\u2019s not much motivation to. It doesn\u2019t have like any incentive, students don\u2019t respond that way.\u201d The notion that the students need an incentive or motivation to engage in service of any type emphasizes the extreme elitist attitude that is pervasive throughout the Croft School. To further highlight the contradictions in the school\u2019s advertised values versus the students\u2019 actions, Alejandro discloses that \u201cthere\u2019s not the sense of helping each other, it\u2019s really individual and [the student] are not trustworthy because they steal, they steal a lot in the school and they steal clothes mainly.\u201d Again we uncover how not only do students fail to give back to their community through acts of service but rather, they STEAL<\/em> from their peers and classmates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncovering the inconsistency between what the school publicizes to the world and the student\u2019s actual behavior has raised a lot of questions and doubts as I have gone through the research process. As I continue throughout my research, I aim to be more cognizant of the discrepancies and also investigate how and why these discrepancies evolve. It is important to take a moment to recognize and acknowledge that simply because somebody (or some organization) talks the talk, doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they (or their students) walk the walk.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all heard the expression \u201cwalk the walk if you are going to talk the talk\u201d \u2013 a person (or organization) should support what they say, not just with words, but also through action. Yet, most of the schools participating in the globally elite study preach core values of community and honesty but when digging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17717,107316,5948],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}