20 Terrible Things Every Private School Kid Went Through

14. Enduring Initiation Rituals

Ah, the horrors of hazing, a series of humiliating rituals popular with private schools and sports clubs. They vary from the tame (eating a 15 course meal) to the atrocious (downing 80 units of alcohol, equivalent to 30 pints, in a single sitting starting at 10am). Good clean fun? Well, kind of, except in Pennsylvania last year when 37 members of a frat society were arrested after a freshman was blindfolded, saddled with a backpack full of sand and shoved repeatedly to the ground resulting in his death.