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A “cool” youth tall, well-dressed, and a role model in his own mind, attends Elementary School Y. In his school bag he carries a knife, to awe his school mates; a couple of condoms, to hand out to friends; and a wine cooler for lunch, to help reduce the terrible anguish imposed by mental challenge. A year later, before finishing 6th grade, he has been incarcerated for a lengthy term on assault and battery, but his place has been taken by imitators.

In a fight over turf between drug dealers at an upper-middle class high school, students bring guns to school in preparation for a shoot-out. A youth sees a fellow student hide a gun in his locker; he is threatened with death if he reports the presence of the weapon, but does so anyway. Although the threat is never carried out he and his parents remain fearful for his life.

Drug dealers at a suburban high school dress ostentatiously in expensive preppy clothing, attend rock concerts and “raves,” drive good cars, and openly brag about the amounts of money they make in their business, despite the constant presence of police patrols, who appear totally ignorant of their activities.