From Cookson & Persell's `Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools'--Part 17

In their 1985 book, Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Cardine Hodges Persell wrote the following about the U.S. power elite's private school and elite prep school educational system and their specially privileged student body:

“Preppies are a perfect market for drug dealers because they have the money and the need. The generous allowances many boarding school students receive make it relatively easy for them to buy drugs. If they do not have money, others often share their drugs…Alcoholism is also prevalent at boarding schools….In effect, prep school students come to believe that they are entitled to privilege because they are true aristocrats…”