Pride and anguish: For those connected to prep schools, this was personal
For the rest of America, the testimonies Thursday of Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh were a riveting and emotional display of democracy that could affect the country for years to come.
For the communities of Holton-Arms and Georgetown Preparatory schools, the elite Washington-area single-sex academies that Ford and Kavanaugh attended more than three decades ago, the hearing was also intensely personal and the source of anguish and pride.
One reaction of the men and women associated with both schools as they followed the day-long televised testimonies: It was hard to watch.
“I was very surprised by how emotional I felt, and I was also struck by feeling very hopeless,” said Danielle Levin, a 2001 graduate of Holton-Arms who works with a Jewish social service agency in New Orleans.
A mother of three boys, Levin said she was distressed about the message being sent to young men by the day’s proceedings, as Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while they were high school students, and Kavanaugh sharply rebutted those claims.
“There was more concern from the Republicans about his reputation and ability to be successful and that seemed more important than whether he sexually assaulted someone or not,” she said.
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