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Originally Posted by EPOCH6
Anybody here spend any significant time in the private school system?
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I went to a military boarding school for two years.
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I've always wondered if there really is any difference between public and private schools in terms of typical teenage social challenges (mysterious powders and pills passed around at parties, being pressured into trespassing/vandalizing on the way to or from school, being pressured to shoplift etc etc).
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Well it was a boarding school where we couldn't leave except on weekends, and even then the only place to go was a small part of a ****burg redneck town with a ridiculously high STD rate. We weren't allowed to wear civilian clothes, we could go inside each other's rooms, and some of us had rank and could tell the others what to do. So I'd say it was different.
I did shoplift some Astroglide once though.
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I'd imagine the generations that grew up with the internet are all exposed to the same teenage culture now, regardless of whether or not your parents try to hide you from it with a private school.
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I don't know how, but somehow we couldn't get any network tv signals in our school, so the only tv we could watch was the school's basic cable, which was like TNT, Discovery Channel... CNN (?), and maybe another couple channels no one wants to watch. Our internet was also kinda restricted, we couldn't have cell phones, no cars, and we were there 24/7 for 9 months out of a year (and I'm including vacation time).
So while we weren't entirely ignorant of the outside world we did have this weird bubble culture. We were pretty much the center of each other's lives, and everyone else was off in "the real world". We even developed our own slang.
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How were the parties in private school?
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lol wut parties?