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pnwmom

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19. This was the culture in ALL of the DC area private schools at the time. BK didn't stand out.
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 04:19 PM
Oct 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/02/04/area-headmasters-warn-parents-of-student-parties/06927fdb-a9fb-4a1c-89bb-8b004e21825e/?utm_term=.8e0b4ec315bc

By Carlos Sanchez February 4, 1990

The headmasters at seven of the Washington area's most prestigious private schools have written a letter to the parents of all students warning them that students are regularly throwing large, unsupervised parties where "excessive drinking and sexual license are common."

In what the headmasters called a rare joint effort, the letters, which were mailed Thursday, asked parents to step up supervision of their children to prevent them from attending or throwing weekend parties that are open to almost anyone and where alcohol is easily available.

The letter was written jointly "to give it more impact," said Malcolm Coates, headmaster at Landon School in Bethesda. "The fact that seven schools decided it was enough of a problem to address it is significant."

Individual schools have confronted the issue before. At the beginning of the school year, for example, Georgetown Preparatory School in Rockville held a conference with parents to discuss the problem of unsupervised parties and similar activities.

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Parenting in Absentia. MineralMan Oct 2018 #1
Social infractions that are a serious problem for most of us DBoon Oct 2018 #4
Why do any parents miss something going wrong with their kid? mythology Oct 2018 #2
It's not that uncommon..amongst that set.. HipChick Oct 2018 #3
They don't look. Are_grits_groceries Oct 2018 #5
What makes you think they didn't notice? MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #6
Whose to say that they may not have been, ahem, wild in their youth too? Tom Rinaldo Oct 2018 #7
I'd say they knew what he was like very well, but made excuses for him all his life. OnDoutside Oct 2018 #8
Jesuits ran this boarding school. irisblue Oct 2018 #9
ALL the DC area schools had this problem, so they were all blind to it. n/t pnwmom Oct 2018 #17
How come every parent from the 80s missed this Johonny Oct 2018 #10
Problems? The guy's some kind of genius! JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2018 #11
You also have the problem customerserviceguy Oct 2018 #12
And possibly the parents were alcoholic? Not uncommon in that set. SharonAnn Oct 2018 #13
I'm wondering how these underaged kids had access to so much alcohol DesertRat Oct 2018 #14
Drinking age got dropped in many states after the 26th Amendment in 1971 irisblue Oct 2018 #15
It's called "privilege". athena Oct 2018 #16
His mother knows the truth malaise Oct 2018 #18
This was the culture in ALL of the DC area private schools at the time. BK didn't stand out. pnwmom Oct 2018 #19
He was always in trouble according to that stupid calendar of his RockaFowler Oct 2018 #20
Entitled assholes are generally raised by other entitled assholes. Solly Mack Oct 2018 #21
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