Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson (7-1) takes to the hardwood tonight to do battle with Northeastern at Cabot Gym before heading south for the winter to face South Carolina and Wofford at the end of the week. These three contests will close out Harvard's pre-Ivy season and prep the squad for its Ivy opener on Saturday, January 3rd, at home versus Dartmouth...
...Latin is the heritage of the 'prep-schoolers...
...culture clash extends to academic issues because professionals moving to town want a college-prep curriculum that the system has been slow to provide. Wilmington's system ranks in the bottom quarter of Ohio school districts, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer study, and sends less than half its graduates to college. Rick and Leslie Chamberlain moved to town thinking the schools would be adequate; they no longer think so. Their oldest child, Jeremy, was an apathetic student who fell in with underachievers at the high school. But because Jeremy wasn't a troublemaker, says Rick, the guidance counselors never...
...with rising enrollment--and a new high school is in the works--"we've seen no upgrade in the quality of education," says Rick. "When professionals moving here ask me about the schools, I say, 'You may have a problem.'" The superintendent is working to improve the college-prep curriculum, but the Chamberlains have lost patience. They send their 12-year-old to parochial school in a town 30 miles away...
...every 1,000 times their ads are shown on the site. School Sucks now generates 40,000 page views a day--it goes up every time a story like this one (sound of lemming splatting) appears. His site is such a gold mine for SAT-prep outfits and other companies that market to student slackers that a venture-capital firm has been talking with Sahr about taking it to the next level, whatever that is. School Sucks erasable shirt cuffs, I suppose, and special mirror glasses that let you sneak a peak at your neighbor's civics exam...