Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andy Griffith and Mary Tyler Moore have been coaxed back to CBS and situation comedy this season, but only for Andy does it seem like a halfway happy return. In Headmaster, the old sheriff of Mayberry smartens up and takes over a coed prep school in California. The series' intention, says Griffith, is "to tell it like it is for the young people while remaining palatable to older audiences." The premiere involved a student who refused to pop "uppers" and "downers" like the rest of the kids. The comic relief, provided mostly by the school's bicep-brained...
...public high school even the girls who had been Achieving academically began to be trained that dating us and preparation for marriage was the only proper area for their self-fulfillment. Segregated prep schools would not exist if it weren't considered important to instill different roles in boys and girls...
...Passport. The prep schools' competition is improving, and some of it is free. Suburban public high schools, especially in well-to-do areas that many potential boarding-school students call home, are now often on an academic par with boarding schools. For this reason, and because the admission policies of colleges have changed, a boarding-school diploma is no longer pursued simply as an Ivy League passport...
Boarding schools are also caught in a social dilemma. Though many schools have actively recruited ghetto students and given them scholarships, liberal parents now find the prep school atmosphere snobby and artificial. More conservative parents, meanwhile, resent the collapse of social and racial exclusivity...
...public high school even the girls who had been Achieving academically began to be trained that dating us and preparation for marriage was the only proper area for their self-fulfillment. Segregated prep schools would not exist if it weren't considered important to instill different roles in boys and girls...