Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another example of this awareness is the number of thriving community service programs that are run by many of the old New England prep school. These programs involve students in the greater community in ways that many public schools can't because of limited resources...
True, many things haven't changed at the prep school The pressure to succeed and the competition are still intense. Despite changes in the composition of the student body, faculty and administration, the Puritan ethic persists Students face a bevy of rules and regulations, covering everything from off-campus travel to having guests of the opposite sex in rooms to even the slightest hint of dishonesty...
...whole, it is undeniable that the Prep School is undergoing a transformation. The stereotypes still apply to many prep schools, but the trend is unmistakable. Andover's disciplinary policies have become the most lax of the New England prep schools, and the dinosaurs in the faculty are becoming an endangered species...
...even if the same forces that created the old-boy network are still welding together the future bourgeoisie, the Establishment to come will be much more progressive in outlook. Most students at Andover and other prep schools describe their politics as liberal compared to that of their parents...
...other good thing that has not changed with almost everything else is the intensely close friendships that develop at the prep school. Just imagine living with your classmates 24 hours a day, sharing meals with them, griping about homework with them standing side-by-side on the sports field with them, appearing onstage with them, discussing the newspaper with them (when you have time to read it rather than skim it) and finally graduating with them. After three or four years of that how could anyone not be friends for life...