I don't think things are as bleak for David at the end as the YMMV section implies. The basically decent Reese has come around after his initial shock, Rip did the right thing eventually and seems like an ally if not a friend, and the blonde guy who stuck up for him in the dining hall and the meeting and the red-haired guy who admits to being anti-Semitic but thinks David is a good guy does too. Plus he still has his football player status. Sure, some people will still be nasty like Mc Goo, and the headmaster is an antiSemitic jerk who used him, but the other faculty members at the final meeting seem sympathetic. Nobody - Jewish or not - can expect to be friends with everyone, and at least things are out in the open now and he can tell who his real friends are.
I don't think things are as bleak for David at the end as the YMMV section implies. The basically decent Reese has come around after his initial shock, Rip did the right thing eventually and seems like an ally if not a friend, and the blonde guy who stuck up for him in the dining hall and the meeting and the red-haired guy who admits to being anti-Semitic but thinks David is a good guy does too. Plus he still has his football player status. Sure, some people will still be nasty like Mc Goo, and the headmaster is an antiSemitic jerk who used him, but the other faculty members at the final meeting seem sympathetic. Nobody - Jewish or not - can expect to be friends with everyone, and at least things are out in the open now and he can tell who his real friends are.
Edited by RonaldC