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There's a Facebook group for former Elan school students/victims/inmates. It lists a bunch of Elan school jargon, without any explanation. Some of these have already been explained, but I wonder if you might translate the whole list:

• Booking Incidents
• General Meetings/House Meetings
• Encounter/Static Groups
• Being in "The Corner"
• Pulling
• HOUSE IN THE DINING ROOM!
• HOUSE WAKE UP!
• VR's
• TT's
• Stand Ups
• Bright LE's
• Dining Room LE
• Every Other LE you can think of...
• Bans/Contracts
• "Be Aware"
• "Dark on Dark"
• Strength Sodas
• BO, CM, SC, KC, X's Pride
• GI'ng, Shotdown
• GI Movie
• Little Red School House
• "With eagerness of spirit we shall find ourselves through knowing others..."
• 4 minute showers
• The Lake
• Weekend Trips/House Trips/Rec Trips
• zones
• pull-ups
• dorm changes
• "LIGHTS OUT"
• "CHIEF!!"
• SP's
• dining room/dorm charts
• "Seconds are passed out in dichotomy"

EDIT: A former resident is posting some pretty amazing illustrations based on her memories of attending in the 1970s.

Dec 1974. One evening while we were watching TV, two escapees were brought in with frostbitten feet. They had escaped with no shoes on their feet.

Jan 1975. As a punishment for running away, Lesley was given a general meeting. Then the director got onto the subject of Lesley being a tomboy and hating womanly things. He made her get all dolled up and made everyone laugh at her and ridicule her. Along with loss of privileges, she had to remain in dress.

Do you know what "dark on dark" refers to?

This is great, thanks so much for taking the trouble.

Amazing. Thanks again for the insight and congratulations on the school's closure.