Listen to the Bloggers
With defense of Britney Spears'  Video Music Awards performance dominating headlines and topping YouTube views, a concentration on more traditional September media fare might be refreshing: enter the Mercersburg blogs, which focus this week on (gasp) education.

English faculty head Matthew Kearney talks about in loco parentis—a boarding school's role as surrogate parent—as well as the importance of the actual parents' role. Just-graduated school newspaperman and seasoned Model United Nations enthusiast shares details of the first moments of his gap year (pre-Columbia University) at the Oswestry School in England.

College counselor Frank Betkowski tells it like it is in his occasional comments on college admission today.

Read all of Mercersburg's blogs here.