In the article, “The Predicament of Doing School”, by Denise Clark Pope, co-founder of Challenge Success (formerly Stressed Out Students), a research and student intervention project, evaluates how students in school manage their social status, grades, and lives outside of school. She claims that the prep school, Faircrest High, may impede what it hopes to achieve, and instead may be promoting an environment with hostility and anxiety. She asks, “why must the students feel the need to manipulate the system and devise crafty strategies to get ahead?” The author develops this claim by first interviewing 5 students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds at Faircrest High School to get a better understanding of what exactly is being
