Depends on who you talk to. He's considered an alumnus of the school in Bush's year and plenty of sources say he graduated. It's something of a technicality whether they let him go through the ceremony or not.
If you're saying he wasn't a typical Andover student, fine. I was just relating that he went to the school to people who might not have heard it but who might find the idea of Bush and Belichick as classmates intriguing.
Also, there are plenty of kids that have gone through Andover who weren’t bullies.
That also depends. What people call bullying or abuse when it's done to them, they call teasing or joking or kidding when they do it themselves. Traditionally, bullying of various sorts was common at boarding schools, especially when they were single sex.
Maybe some kids nowadays are saintly and avoid all manner of offensive behavior, but it certainly wasn't like that in the 60s or 70s. That a prep school jock forty years ago could be a jerk sometimes really doesn't come as a surprise. That doesn't mean Jeb should be president, but if you think the story is a big deal, you're letting the Globe manipulate you.
Well, I see you have a lot of time on your hands if you’re still pursuing this. :-)
My youngest daughter has applied to Andover (and other top prep schools) for high school starting next fall. So, I’ve learned a lot about Andover and others.
If you look at the lists of notable alumni that these schools claim, you will find a lot of notables on the list who never graduated from the schools. Some of the schools even point out those on the list who did not graduate.
Many of these schools offer a postgraduate year for people like Belichick to improve their stats for college. But those people aren’t graduates.
As for the Globe, I believe the people they quoted. I voted for Jeb twice for governor here in Florida. Subsequently, we’re finding that much of what Jeb did as governor has been a disaster - particularly, in education. The bottom line is that I now believe Jeb is a dick and that every word of the Globe report is true.
Now, enough! Get on with your life.