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Ladue High 'Senior List' Goes Beyond a Prank, but the Prank Tradition Is There
Pranks at Ladue Horton Watkins have gone on since the beginning of the high school in the 1950s.
This week, the focus has been on a senior bullying tradition that smacks of sexism at Ladue Horton Watkins High School. Seems that anonymous graduating seniors at Ladue Horton Watkins have been making disparaging remarks about senior female graduates for two decades or longer. School officials have tried to shut down this misbehavior but efforts so far have failed. A parent in the district recently brought this to the attention of the school board to take decisive action. Ladue has had a tradition, particularly of senior pranks going back to its earliest days in the 1950s. Sometimes, they bordered on the bizarre, much like we saw in National Lampoon's Animal House, a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. Here’s some of the …
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