Word: prep
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Life in many attitude-adjustment schools is closer to prison than prep school. Facilities are spartan, discipline strict. At Tranquility Bay, students are supervised from wake-up at 6:30 a.m. to lights-out at 9:30 p.m. Punishment for violations of the 54-page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement"--meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints...
Playing at the prep school level for Saint Thomas More against Dean's Harvard JV last year, Clemente sunk "five or six threes" in the first half, Dean recalls...
...Prep school added a new dimension to Clemente's game. The New England Prep Basketball League "was very physical, and the talent level was very high," Clemente says...
...Thomas More, like many other prep schools, also schedules JV college teams, and Clemente's encounters with now-teammates Dean and Damian Long introduced him to a team with a youthful future, one that Clemente found attractive as well...
Officials from Winchester College--another of UK's top prep schools--and the prestigious Westminster School, situated in the shadow of Westminster Abbey also that for most of their students, the focus is on matriculating to Oxford or Cambridge...