Miss Porter's "Oprichniki"
Miss Porter's, a women only boarding school in Farmington, Connecticut, is highly esteemed for educating the likes of Jackie O., Barbara Hutton, generations of debutantes, powerful women, and apparently, mean girls. The scandal starts with a student named Tatum Bass who went to the administration to confess that she had cheated on a test. However, the issue doesn't truly take flight until Bass claims that what drove her to cheat was intense bullying from a group of upperclassmen that go by the pseudonym "Oprichniki," which comes from the name of a secret police group protecting "Ivan the Terrible" in the 1500s (the girls learned that in a class titled 'Communist Societies'). How appropriate. As it turns out, Bass made a grave mistake tarnishing the always proper Porter's name with accusations of bullying so extreme that she supposedly lived in fear and in dire need of counseling - as she was subsequently expelled from the academy. Alumna of Ms. Porter's, whom are called "Ancients," claim that the Oprichniki operates all in good fun to uphold the traditions of the school; victims of the group would beg to differ.
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