[HN Gopher] The Hatboro Blues
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       The Hatboro Blues
        
       Author : newest
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-02-07 18:35 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | alangibson wrote:
       | This is like reading the story of my time in highschool, except
       | Philadelphia was Austin and I was just watching but never using
       | anything stronger than Everclear and Surge.
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       | Thinking about all the people that I grew up with that are either
       | dead, in prison or hopeless addicts makes me despair for the
       | wasteland that is most of the USA. Those born and raised urban
       | and middle class just don't know...
        
       | calvinmorrison wrote:
       | My home town and my cohort. AMA.
        
         | tony_cannistra wrote:
         | How does your version of the story go?
        
       | 1auralynn wrote:
       | I graduated Hatboro-Horsham in 1998, and heroin was a problem
       | even then in my larger friend circle (and I was a big sheltered
       | nerd who lived in Horsham), due to the proximity to Philly (the
       | "heroin capital of the US" at the time). One girl OD'd after I
       | went to college. The school itself was pretty great academically
       | and otherwise, as far as public high schools go, but the really
       | good teachers were older and many retired I think, in the 2000s.
       | From what I've heard, a combo of NCLB and 'zero tolerance'
       | policies turned the school into kind of a hellhole (like many
       | other schools at the time).
        
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