Seriously, I went to high school in the 80’s and am (only) 45, some of my friends are still having babies so don’t make me feel like a grandparent yet!
^^ I thought the same. There is no way I am grandparent age!
It’s possible at 45, even without being a teen mom.
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It seems at least some of the students escaped prison sentences, but a student at another school died. http://deeppowderfilm-blog.■■■■■■■■■■/. I know an alum of that other school; she also limks that death to the scandal.
Not a fun movie. Perhaps moving, perhaps thought-provoking. I haven’t seen it, and don’t know if it covers everything.
^Ouch, Periwinkle. Didn’t realize that. I knew a bunch of kids were expelled but I didn’t know there was a death. I haven’t seen the trailer so I don’t know how the filmmaker approached it but clearly not fun.
@doschicos Yep, our cohort here is ground freekin’ zero for American boarding school: proximity; demographic; high-achieving kids with demonstrable success in an individual sport where fastest always wins; American-dream style nonsense of aspirant families without generations-long legacies at these places. Every year, the cohort splits into the wills and won’ts, and the prep school applications begin, for both the local choices and the more distant institutions, followed like the first bright flowers of spring by jealousy, backbiting, bitterness, misunderstanding, and hurt feelings. It’s glorious, an almost perfect self-kicking machine. But it is never more fun than when the kids who went away to boarding school come back to visit that first summer! Awkward. It can feel like The Village at times, and it’s not for everyone, but these kids who decide to hike the competitive high-school path are winners, they earn their spots, and I would never fault them for that.
@GnocchiB It’s actually Coke Nosemary Hall. Even better. As I’ve often said, the elite boarding school world is astoundingly small. You still hear Coke Nosemary Hall today when the kids talk about these schools. And when a parent is so gleeful that for once it is not the school they’re paying for in the media barrel, even something old news from 32 years ago like this shows how these scandals live on as legend in this tiny, incestuous universe.
@ScareyNYC Well, the 60 Minutes report called the Preppie Connection was essentially 100% nonsense. 60 Minutes isn’t reporting, it’s entertainment. The same way tabloid coverage in the papers is entertainment. There was often actual reporting done for any 60 Minutes story, but usually very little of it made segment, with 10+ hours of interviews routinely cut down to minutes at best. Incomplete would the kindest way to describe the usual 60 Minutes segment. Misleading would be another way. Preening vainglorious garbage would be a good one, too. The people on the ground in 1984 say the Choate story was especially misleading, and I don’t have any good reason to doubt them. My understanding is that the 60 Minutes report was part of the legal strategy to keep the kid who wasn’t being protected by Bill Clinton out of jail. Except for the kid attempting to stay out of prison for a decade or two, exactly nobody involved in the story was a part of the 60 Minutes piece. Scared stupid kid and sacrificial spokesweasel appeared on 60 Minutes, but no information was disclosed beyond what was butt-covering from criminal and school. Good luck with the flick, though. From what I know of it, the true story is mostly sad and stupid, but if everybody involved took the proper and routine liberties, the movie could be a fun Bret Easton Ellis-style period piece.