Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drug-taking seems to be starting even before freshmen come to Harvard, and that could account in great measure for the increase. There are indications that large prep schools are the original source...
...therefore, forced to admit that today people send their sons to prep schools for purely social reasons: as a sign of economic achievement, as a perpetuation of a family tradition, or as plain and simple snobbism...
...believe the prep schools themselves know this; hence their great desire in recent years to justify their existence. A handful of promising students from Roxbury or Harlem is taken in to manifest social awareness--at the same time a promising football player from suburban Boston is taken in to get him ready to meet his Ivy League college's minimum scholastic standards while he gratifies the old grads on Saturday afternoons in the Fall...
...whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia or for salaries for upwards of twenty excellent high school teachers in Watts...
...penalty if the government does not aid prep schools as Dean Sizer wishes? They may have to increase tuition. The time is long past when the nation can cry over potential hardships to the rich. But the time is ripe to aid education where aid is truly needed, and that need lies far from the soccer fields or our "independent" schools. Peter C. Poole...