<p>I really do believe high school experiences between adults and our generation are different. My parents never experienced being gay, under the influence of drugs, and other things. I’m not saying there aren’t parents who experience similar things to adolescent our age, but I think it has changed. </p>
<p>They should know that it happens everywhere, but not in this form. There are many ways to educate that a selective school doesn’t have to have perfect kids. If they like the PostSecret format, they should change the name. </p>
<p>I feel like I’ve been repeating the same thing in different sentences. I’m done.</p>
<p>Mark Twain, Px, noted: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” I can assure you that there was a great great deal of drugs, sex–both gay and straight, drinking, and all sorts of other vices when those of us who were born before the lightbulb were teenagers. Someday you will realize that you have much more in common than you think with your parents and, they, with you. But now it is meet, right and the proper thing to do to think that you and your cohort are unique-- Do me a favor please, save your post and look at it again in about eight years. :-)</p>
<p>@etondad It’s funny how we study that exact quote in eighth grade and I didn’t understand it at first, but now I do. You make an excellent point, especially considering you’re a parent, not a teenager.</p>
<p>Okay I will try to think about it again… I wish there was an app for that.</p>
<p>Considering when I first came out and my parents thought I was crazy and admitted me to therapy, I’m not quite sure I believed they would ever have done anything remotely gay.</p>
<p>I believe drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Alochol because everyone has a little bit of wine on Christmas so I’m sure my parents have been drunk before. And I believe smoking because smoking used to be considered “not dangerous”. Or something like that.</p>
<p>@Px that sounds more like your parents specifically than a whole generation, although the world is generally more accepting now (the UK is currently legalising gay marriage!)</p>
<p>My dad was at a none academic ‘public’ boarding school, so I have no doubt he’s had plenty of experience with all that stuff. I only found out a couple of months ago that he’s smoked since he was at school though. And my mum read tarot cards at festivals many years ago, so I’m sure she’s had experience with drugs…</p>
<p>PxAlaska, that sounds awful. I agree with UKgirl, though. I think that a majority of that generation is accepting, but not as accepting as our generation :).</p>
<p>Horribly. Lately, my school has been descending into idiocy. </p>
<p>Recently, boys have taken to “grinding” into elderly female teachers; this is often accompanied by hoots from the other boys, “You want that to happen, dontcha?” Trust me, I will be super super super glad when summer comes!</p>
<p>On a side note, it does seem to make the prep schools sound better in my mind…if not for the rampant Parent forum threads that also delve into the “grinding culture” at BS.</p>
<p>Some things just stay the same, no matter where you go! >_<</p>
<p>@UKgirl23 Your parents sound awesome because they’re experienced in the teenaged activities and can help you if you get in trouble. Mine on the other hand went to boarding school in Africa so you can see how the whole ‘rule-breaking’ thing is a problem…</p>
<p>@Silverstag On one hand I’m nervous as anything, on the other I’m praying to God I get in because I can’t stand another day of kids calling out, interuptting teachers, seeing leggings on every 1 out of 6 girls who walk by, getting on a bus for 50 minutes to drive to a redneck school with a magnet program in the middle of nowhere. And the Humanities program isn’t even that good.</p>
<p>@GoldenRatio Oh gosh, at least boys in my school only grind on girls their age (give or take a year or two) at parties and dances! Woah woah, parents discuss ‘grinding culture’ in boarding schools? I have to see that!</p>
<p>@bsroxmysox: WO_Oah, Africa? That sounds awesome! Though the rules don’t sound as appetizing…my parents are rather strict as well. And 1 out of 6 of your girls wear leggings? I remember when that was a trend in my school. <em>shudders</em></p>
<p>And yes, my school is rather special, you could say. The “grinding” Parent forum thread is here (page 2). Keep in mind that it was intended to talk about dating, etc, in BS, so…mature content warnings and all that. :P</p>
<p>Oh goodness, grinding culture? hahaha
Well, my high school just had its first dance in three years (it was taken away from us because some inconsiderate people showed up high and drunk) and the grinding that took place could potentially scar me for life xD At one point it got way out of hand because it started with grinding and then progressed to even less pleasant things…</p>
<p>We have a uniform but some girls’ skirts don’t even cover their bums any more, it’s really gross. And on non-uniform days at least 1 in 3 are in leggings.
We don’t have any kind of dances between 7th grade discos and sophomore prom, so I have no experience with grinding, thankfully :)</p>
<p>Wow. Our schools, solely based on hormonal teenage acts…sound kind of trashy. Or that may just be my school. Because my school is definitely redneck-trashy…</p>