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Well, it says something about the culture at STA and it's not flattering.  The other schools we are considering for DS are Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, etc. and those schools have an honor code where students have to report drug use by peers or face expulsion themselves.  Granted these are primarily boarding but STA also has a boarding component.

It was well known on my college campus that the kids who went to these boarding schools were the ones with the drugs.  If you think they don't have EXACTLY the same issues there as those discussed in this thread, or perhaps even worse, than you are quite naive.

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Confirmed, in my experience.  Boarding school kids, as a population, tend to have more disposable cash, grow up faster, have more freedom, and party harder than their day schooled peers.  That was a consideration in not sending DC to board.

FWIW - The honor code at my high school was largely, although not universally, reviled by the student population.  At the end of the day, it was nothing more than a tool for clueless adults to encourage gullible students to rat on their peers.  One might want to consider whether this is a key trait one wants to instill as a parent.  Do we really want to raise a little junior whistle-blowers?[/quote]

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