Please ignore the giant elephant in the room.....

So, I found the roughneck article very interesting. I thought it was the PERFECT portrayal of our school. It made me think back to the school newspaper articles and the book the security guard wrote. We love to portray ourselves as the perfect school. I think, our school would like us to go to school, take 47 AP tests, go home, do our homework all night long and go to bed. On weekends we like to spend our time doing extracurriculars, community service work and studying for our tests. In reality, we're still a bunch of teenagers (as much as that sounds like a cop out) and we're not perfect. I think that's why the administration freaked out when the above mentioned publications came out. Now, the book had very little truth (or correctly spelled words) out of my four years I have never seen kids doing coke in the bathroom or blatantly groping one another (ok not like he explained it haha). But still, it was a dent in our perfect reputation. Same with the newspaper articles, nobody's pregnant, we don't drink, we don't steal. Yes, yes some of us do. But the thing is we can kinda get away with it because of who we are. We are upper- middle class, suburban kids that go to a good school. We can be a little sneaky, we can sweep things under the rug because of who we are. On some levels we can be worse because of all the opportunities and money and parents as lawyers. Our school, as a whole, is a bunch a of saints.

*I would like to note that not everyone at school is a "saint", that is not everyone drinks or does drug or engage in promiscuous activities in their free time. I was just saying there is a population of kids that do and that our school does not like to recognized their behavior.