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School Ties – An Inspiring Story of Courage and Integrity

In September of 1955, 17-year-old David Greene, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, receives a scholarship for his senior year to St. Matthew’s Academy, an exclusive Massachusetts prep school, because of his excellent grades and exceptional ability to play football – despite his working-class background. However, before arriving at school, David gets into an alleyway fight with a nearby motorcycle gang that insults him for being Jewish, which leaves him with a bruised forehead.

Challenges Faced at St. Matthew’s Academy

Upon arrival, he meets his roommate, Chris Reese, and his other teammates, Rip Van Kelt, Charlie Dillon, Jack Connors, and team manager, Mack McGivern, the most well-known and popular students from well-to-do families. He also learns of the school’s cherished honor code system. After learning that his newfound friends, as well as the majority of staff and students at the school, have widespread negative and stereotypical views about Jews, he chooses not to reveal his ethnicity.

David quickly becomes the football team’s hero and attracts beautiful débutante Sally Wheeler, who Dillon “claims” is his girlfriend. After winning over St. Matthew’s chief rival, St. Luke’s, an intoxicated teacher accidentally reveals to Charlie that David is Jewish. Out of jealousy, Charlie tells the rest of the football team about this in the shower room, and David challenges him to a fight, which results in Charlie getting a bloody nose.

Standing Up Against Discrimination

Soon, David’s Jewish ethnicity becomes the center of attention, causing Sally and most other students to turn against David. David’s classmates, led by Richard “McGoo” Collins and his bodyguard-like roommate Chesty Smith, constantly harass him, with only Reese and another unnamed student remaining loyal. The final straw comes when he finds a sign above his bed bearing a Nazi flag and the words “Go home, Jew.” Finally, having enough, he furiously makes a public confrontation against everyone and demands whoever made the sign to meet him outside the building the following night. No one shows up, and David calls out the students’ cowardice when he sees them looking out their dorm windows.

Overwhelmed by pressure from his prestigious family, Charlie uses a crib sheet to cheat on a vital History exam. David and Rip Van Kelt spot him doing so but choose not to report him. After the exam, Charlie gets bumped into by another student when leaving the History class and accidentally drops the cheat sheet onto the floor. When the teacher, Mr. Gierasch, finds it, he informs the class that he will fail all of them if the cheater does not come forward. He instructs the students, led by Van Kelt, the head prefect, to convince the cheater to turn himself into the headmaster’s office.

Integrity and Resilience

When David confronts Charlie and threatens to turn him in himself if he does not confess to cheating on the history exam, Charlie tells David about the pressure he is facing, apologizes for conspiring against him, and unsuccessfully attempts to bribe David into silence. Later, just when David is about to reveal Dillon as the cheater to the other students at the table, Dillon gets up and publicly accuses David of being the cheater. They try to fight each other, but Van Kelt stops and tells them to leave and let the rest of the class decide who is being honest. Both agree although Reese tries to convince David not to because he says the rest of the class will be prejudiced against him.

The majority of the class blames David out of antisemitic prejudice, while Reese, the unnamed student, and Connors, going against his self-professed antisemitism, argue that it is unlike David to cheat and lie. Despite this, the class votes to convict David, prompting Van Kelt to tell him to report to the headmaster, Dr. Bartram, to confess to the cheating.

A True Test of Character

David goes to Bartram’s office and says that he is the cheater. Unbeknownst to him, Van Kelt had already told the headmaster that the offender was Charlie. Bartram tells David and Van Kelt that they should have reported the offense, but he absolves both. David then angrily states that he will use this school as a springboard to further his education, the same way the school uses him for football.

As David leaves the headmaster’s office, he sees Charlie, now expelled from St. Matthew’s, leaving the school. Charlie says that he will be accepted to Harvard anyway and that years later, everybody will have forgotten about his incident, but David still will be a “Goddamn Jew.” David laughs him off and says to Charlie that he still will be a “prick,” and walks away.

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