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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The actions of one or a few individuals at a local school in the news recently occurred 35-40 years ago.  Does any [i]reasonable[/i] person really think that those behaviors are still prevalent?[/b]

I have no connection to the school except we've been there a few times for children's practices or games.  I would have no qualms considering the school for our sons if they were applying to high school and if we lived in the general area.

I think OP is muck raking.  Isn't there enough intolerance and nastiness in the world already, OP?  Do you really need to dive in, too?[/quote]

It’s quite hard to believe that people would allow a school’s culture from almost 40 years ago to affect how they think about it now. But yes, people really are that irrational. [/quote]

[b]So tell us: What year did the school's culture change? [/quote][/b]

Are you really trying to imply that the culture hasn’t changed in 40 years?  I would assume that Georgetown Prep’s culture started to change at around the same time as the overall party culture started diminishing which would be around the late 80’s. And yes, I realize partying still went on it just wasn’t as hedonistic.

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I went to school in the 90s, and I have to say,[b] I never associated the 1980s with "party culture." It seemed like a decade for squares.[/b] [/quote]

Have you never seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's, Sixteen Candles?  These were rather representative of high school life at that time.  [/quote]

They were fiction. Do you really think a kid who took a gun to school and said he was going to attempt suicide would have been punished with Saturday detention? Do you really think teachers' locked kids in closets and got away with it? I'm a kid of that era and we watched those movies and were titillated by the bad behavior portrayed that we'd never dare partake of. [/quote]

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