What They Don't Tell You On The Tour...

I guess this year more people got in trouble than other years. Some things go down in history like when four years ago some one got a DC for repeatedly putting Tabasco sauce in the waffle iron, but other things people just try to forget. Most of these happened this year.

This year was a combination of transgressions of academic honesty, drinking and being obvious and aiding and abetting an idiot on psychedelic mushrooms. Supposedly there is a higher standard for students enrolled in a private institution and cheating is supposedly nonexistent, although it happens anyway.

Similarly, we will never get locks on our doors because in such a community environment, who would dare steal? Well thieves of course. But back to cheating, it is quite a serious deal. Next year's president got caught cheating and well, isn't the president anymore. Some people got suspended and then reverse suspended, which means they get to come back after everyone has gone and make up the work they missed, this is pretty much the worst thing high school students can think of.

This year the number one class to cheat in was senior English in which students took their own work from their sophomore year and turned it in again. Their punishment was relatively mild since the rules on this sort of thing are nebulous (hazy, a word from my vocab energizers). Other classes that made the list were history and AP science classes.

In the same league as "cheating" is "the got caught drunk" category. This is usually a mix of party boys and girls who drank so much they needed to be taken to the hospital or wisely decided to pee outside as a teacher walked by. There's never much privacy and if you do something someone will know about it, guaranteed. the only question is who are they and what are they going to do about it?

Lastly, people on the less common drugs usually, depending on their involvement, just get expelled. A few days before finals several boys got caught on shrooms. Even the boys who let them use their room or gave them some water got in trouble. This also resulted in the first official expulsion of the year....

Kate