What Kavanaugh and Judge did at Georgetown Prep is not unique to elite prep schools

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I posted this the other day and got no response to it, but thought I'd post it again now that more about Kavanaugh has come out.

I grew up in a small town in Connecticut and went to public school there. It was a mostly white working class/blue collar town at the time and I graduated HS in the mid 80s. Out of around 400 kids total in the high school, I doubt more than a dozen kids were non white. So, about 100 kids per class, and somewhere around 50/50 boys to girls. Today, the town still has the blue/collar and white working class element, but nowadays is a lot more diverse both racially and economically - just checking the numbers from the State Dept of Ed website, the high school now has somewhere closer to 550 kids and maybe 135/140 are not white and the town now has a white collar/middle class/upper middle class element as well)

1) While not as violent as holding girls down and covering their mouths, coerced sex was pretty common at high school parties where I grew up. I was too shy and not cool enough to be invited to these parties, but I've heard the stories from enough reliable kids (boys & girls) that I'm certain the stories were true. I believe at least one girl did file a police report years later because it made the local newspaper, but I have no idea the resolution and I've mostly lost touch with all but a couple of kids from my high school except for the occasional "Happy Birthday" on Facebook. (Too many of them seem to be the Deplorable/Trump supporter types, it seems.)

2) When I was in middle school (Grade 6-8), a bunch of boys in town on a Catholic Youth basketball team (not associated with the school, but a lot of the basketball jocks were on both teams) lost a New England tournament championship game because they were hung over from too much drinking the night before the championship. So, drinking and drugs were pretty common as well.

3) Several years after graduating at a class reunion planning meeting, I found out that a girl I had graduated with had been pregnant when she marched for graduation. She then said that high school administrators at the time gave her trouble for being visibly pregnant, until her mom brought up the fact that she was a nurse at a local hospital and least 9 girls from my class came in and had had abortions. That stunned me at the time - 10 pregnancies out of somewhere around 50 girls in the class.

4) A lot more recently, in another town in Connecticut that is a working class town (Torrington), two 13 year old girls accused a couple of high school football players of either rape or sexual assault. The two girls were bombarded with attacks from classmates and others in town (including a lot of other girls) both in person and on social media. The two boys were later convicted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrington_High_School_rape_case

So, there is no way in my mind that this is something unique to expensive prep school kids - this is a problem across all income levels and in public and private schools.