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more about #prep BellaTricks: It's times like this that I'm incredibly thankful for my public performing arts high school, where there was no such thing as "popular kids." I did, ... more » andromedeia: i'm really shocked that a girl would actually be named "Cashmere." Naming your child after a luxury textile speaks volumes about that whole culture. ... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: I find myself terribly attracted to this book, and I'll probably read it, though I won't enjoy it. Isn't that screwed up? I didn't like Prep very much... more » clevernamehere: I think the obsession with wealth really spiraled out on control post-9/11. I went to a pretty affluent public high school and when I was a student i... more » Le Kangourou de Kataroo: did anyone else's high school actually have popular crowds with names? That would be the "God Squad" at my school (This is what happens when you go t... more » clevernamehere: I really wonder how this memoir will stand up once her classmates read it and weigh in. People often have very biased recollections of high school, d... more » queenieinmanhattan: Did anyone else's high school actually have popular crowds with names? Yup. "Sweet Posse." And, yes: it was a prep school. more » Evie Havok: I've no problem or obsession/envy for rich prep school educated people because I am one. The only problem I have with them is how these people try to ... more » CubeRootOfPi: Ha ha ha ha ha ha - my GRAD school had cliques with names. Just sayin' These books are popular, IMO, because they portray what most people don't hav... more » greengrey: "compete over who can lose the most weight and wear the most expensive clothes" I thought that happened at every high school. more » mainesqueeze: did anyone else's high school actually have popular crowds with names? Yes, my (public) high school had a group called "the Blondies." I actually tal... more » marshmallory: This makes me glad that I went to a public school in which almost everyone was lower-middle-class, and the ones who weren't went to great lengths to h... more » marshmallory: I happen to love rubbery nacho cheese. LEAVE MY RUBBERY NACHO CHEESE ALONE. more » Sunshineyness: I remember in 5th grade our teacher made the class have a meeting about the emerging "popular" crowd (she was young and I think she thought she could ... more » Ratinski: You know, I may be totally offbase here, but I'm pretty sure that "Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool... more » colormeroutine: I cannot wrap my head around books/movies about high school cliques. My high school didn't have those. Possibly just because it was so huge. But liter... more » CurtCole: I'm glad nothing in the article speaks negatively of my love affair with Chuck Bass. more » EkaterinaBallerina: I went to private school in New Jersey. I sat in a strange middle as someone who was friends with everyone, but not popular, never picked on, never bu... more » geeky_reader: So kind of on-topic but not, if anyone wants a pretty interesting YA read, try A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. Old school prep (early 1900'... more » Mafalda para Presidente: From my experience, the morality of my classmates in an exclusive school (in another country, though) and my classmates in the public ones wasn't too ... more » -
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Everything Sucks: Why Americans Love Prep School Stories
Hannah Friedman's Everything Sucks is billed as the anti-Gossip Girl, but it speaks to the same cultural obsession: a combined envy of and disgust for the very rich and very young.
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