AFTER FORD'S ACCUSATION, A GENERATION OF HOLTON-ARMS ALUMNAE WRESTLE WITH THEIR OWN TRUTHS
Source: Vanity Fair
"People started texting, Facebooking, tweeting, e-mailing, calling immediately,” said Maggie Quiroga Mainor, who graduated from Holton-Arms, one of an elite network of private schools outside of Washington, D.C., in 1974. “Whether we agree or disagree or hated each other as classmates, we would unite behind even our worst enemy in our class, if we felt like someone was being treated the way we saw her being treated.”
“Her,” in this case, meant Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a fellow Holton alumnus, who friends called “Chrissy,” and whose letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault made its way to Senator Dianne Feinstein in July. Months later, Ford reluctantly disclosed her story to The Washington Post, describing how Kavanaugh had drunkenly cornered her in a bedroom at a party with his friend, pinned her down and attempted to remove her clothes, and covered her mouth and turned up music to muffle her screaming. On Thursday, Ford is expected to testify about her experience before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ford’s story ignited a national news cycle. More locally, it lit up the Holton alumni network almost immediately, in part because the community is so tightly knit: each class is made up of about 65 young women, many of whom are still in touch, some of whom still live in the area. Many of the 1,800-odd members of the private Holton alumnae Facebook group immediately rallied behind their fellow classmate, whose story has dominated the national discourse, even as it spurs an equally crucial dialogue in the suburb she once called home.
To many Holton students, Ford’s description of the party she attended in 1982 felt familiar. Beginning in middle school, there were parties with young men from surrounding schools like Georgetown Prep, Landon, and St. Albans every Friday and Saturday night, at big houses set back from winding, dimly lit streets. There was money to get alcohol. Parents were absent. The homes had pools and movie theaters and sweeping yards. They were teenagers in a candy store. “It was a highly professional culture of parents, many of whom self-selected those schools to be a big babysitter . . . a lot of them just parked the kids and left,” one 1980s Landon alum who socialized with Ford in high school told me. A woman who graduated from Holton in 1988, and lived down the street from Ford, recalled students from the boys’ schools pulling up to parties with duffel bags full of alcohol. “I never went to a party where there wasn’t alcohol; it was a drunk fest,” she said. “You’re living in a bubble where a lot of the families are exceedingly wealthy, a lot of parents are not tuned in to their kids, and a lot of times, parents were away, and the mice would play.”
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They sure as hell didn't want THIS put out there in the "public". 
If this had happened in a poor neighborhood, the parents would have been arrested for "child endangerment" and "providing alcohol to minors" (i.e., many statues consider "not restricting its access" within the household the same as effectively "supplying it" even if they didn't directly buy it and provide it) and other assorted things, and the children would have been removed from home and put in the foster care system.