Is It Time To Reconsider Boarding School’s Place in Pop Culture?

During my senior year at the Taft School, a boarding school in Connecticut, I enrolled in a class called Boarding School Literature. The self-referential nature of the topic was apparent from the jump, and it made the class seem like a bit of a joke, an easy option to help seniors coast toward graduation. The assumption that we would be reading about the familiar was correct. We were assigned books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Prep, Old School, and, for the umpteenth time, The Catcher in the Rye, and I wrote papers about the ways… Read Full Article