<p>The cc obsession with GLADCHEMS and HADES has left the topic of drug and alcohol use at those and other BSs wide open. I'd like to hear anecdotes, myths, truths, facts about notorious or otherwise illegal bs recreational activities.</p>
<p>I applied to 6 prep schools last year and got into 5, but ended up staying at my public school 
but I have a few friends at Hotchkiss, Choate, the Hill, Middlesex, and Groton, and they all seem to have the kids who deal drugs, get high, and smoke weed. Just because it’s a prep school doesn’t mean there aren’t any oddballs, sometimes there might be more since the majority of BS students come from high income families that provide a lot of stuff for their kids ($$$).</p>
<p>Thanks slimone7. I realize that probably every bs and hs has some group involved with drinking and drugs. I suppose what I’m hinting around for is whether or not there are specific schools with druggy reputations… For instance, we’re interested in NMH but have heard it called " a stoner school." It may be that because it’s a more progressive environment than the majority of bs, it simply gets tarred with that brush. What say you CCites?</p>
<p>I think that moniker is totally pejorative and ill informed. I would discount it entirely.</p>
<p>Any school can be a party school. Or better yet, you can find the party crowd at any school, bs, public or day.</p>
<p>The question is …how easily is the student influenced by others. Just yesterday at dinner my mom and myself asked my d about the goings on of the campus and why she is able to not be sucked into it. Her response is that many kids that do it have lots of money and little parental involvement. Also, they dont value the opportunity that they are being afforded mostly because they have money and it wasnt their choice to be at bs in the first place.</p>
<p>The notion of there being a correlation between kids w/ money who’ve been SENT to bs rather than having chosen it, and their ensuing unhappiness–hence greater likelihood for drugs and drinking–is interesting. Sad too. I do think there are kids who’ll be into harmful behavior at all schools. The question in my mind, as I continue to consider this issue, is first how aware, and then how tolerant, a school will be concerning such behavior.</p>
<p>I get to quote myself!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1028918-drug-problem-bs-worse-than-day-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/1028918-drug-problem-bs-worse-than-day-schools.html</a></p>
<p>While some kids will still get involved with drugs/alcohol whether they are at local schools or boarding schools, don’t forget at least at boarding school for the most part they are not getting behind the wheel of a car or riding with another teenager unless you give permission.</p>
<p>@ Periwinkle: Thank you for what I agree appears to be a plausible theory, and thank you as well for the intriguing link that you posted. Nonetheless, given the connection between wealth, the expectation of many affluent parents to produce super achieving offspring, and hence the additional stress on kids (they’re ALL leaders of course now), it seems to me that a school like NMH, that intentionally sets itself apart from the superschool paradigm, would perhaps ironically create an environment less likely to stimulate a desire for escape from stress via drugs/alcohol than would a pressure cooker environment.</p>