How do the local students feel?

bigblue09
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:29:21 +0000

Honestly, the whole Andover/townies dispute thing is probably not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. There’s some animosity between certain members of the two groups, but it’s not a dangerous situation. It’s more of a joke than anything. You’re looking at an upper class Massachusetts town and a boarding school.

Considering that a lot of students from the town of Andover go to PA, there’s also a lot of mutual friendships with students at both PA and AHS. Sometimes athletes from Andover High do a postgraduate year at PA as well.

The height of the conflict probably occurs when an Andover High student sneaks into Commons for a free meal or something is yelled out from a passing car. (See [Urban Dictionary: catboner](Urban Dictionary: catboner))