Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uphoff's conception, the King of Navarre and his friends are a group of prep school boys who want to be alone with their books and toys. They cavort on a fantastical playground that comes complete with a swing, a seesaw, a sandbox, a basketball hoop and, of course, an electric train set. The visiting Princess of France and her ladies in waiting find the men's actions, particularly their vow not to see women, highly amusing. Needless to say, the men immediately fall in love with the women and decide to forget their vows and begin wooing. Accompanied...
...Atlanta, the Westminster School--an elite college prep school with a historically Christian focus--has succumbed after a year of pressure to do away with its policy of only hiring Christian faculty. Several prestigious colleges, such as Georgetown University, had stopped sending recruiters to the school, and had suggested that Westminster's "exclusionary" policy would jeopardize the college admissions chances of its students...
...still not in love with Cabot. But I'm over the fear of a 15-minute walk. It's nice to actually live in a neighborhood, with real people and away from the annoying, prep-school bustle of the Square...
Carter says the two years she had spent at a prep school helped her adjust to dorm life more easily than her first-year roommates. In the co-ops, she says, she found more maturity and freedom...
...bottom line is that the prep school provides teaching second to none, a plethora of offerings in their curricula, enviable facilities, full time and effective counseling and an experience that many alumni believe to be the best years of their lives. Yes, the stereotypical prep school and preppie still exist, but to blindly believe in anachronistic archetypes is to ignore the more complex reality...