Well, if your idea is that bullying and buggering in England in the 50s signalled the end of civilization, what do you make of the 19th century novel “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” which also presented evil running amok in public schools. The character of Flashman is the evil bully in that one. Interestingly, that character became the hero in a series of 20th century novels written by...someone named MacDonald, I think. No Pardons may remember. Cruelty in English public schools is a stable of both literature and films and says very little about end times, I’m afraid.
I imagine the all-female Lord of the Flies is going to bomb like the female Ghostbusters.
Staple not stable. Duh!
Fraser was a young soldier in Burma during WWII. His Quartered Safe Out Here is one of the best war memoirs I've ever read.
Back around 1973, when I was just a short-pants schoolboy, my mother had me watch Tom Brown Schooldays on the television. I think it was a PBS mini-series. She evidently thought it was some kind of heartwarming story about boys in school and I think the subject matter caught her by surprise. She evidently never read the book!
Predating "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS" ( which I still adore and have a first edition of, as well as the disc of the movie ), is Dickens' descriptions of a truly wretched public school, in "DAVID COPPERFIELD".
And then, moving a bit forward, are Churchill's writings about his schools days; though NONE of these books are about a Cathedral Choir School.
Yes, this all girl cast remake ( if it EVER does get made ), will not only be absolutely terrible, beyond measure, it WILL be a FLOP!