I hope this doesn’t sound racist (its not intended as such as I am not white!) but this school is in the South London area (where I am originally from!), where a high proportion of people are black – although its a mixed multicultural environment people of all races are highly influenced by the Black British community’s culture (which is often no bad thing within reason, consider rastamouse)
this sort of London community uses the term “rave” for urban music/grime which can include chart acts such as N-Dubz, Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder, Wylie etc, which as they have got mainstream acceptance and often (somewhat hipocritically) distance themselves from drugs (normal folk actually associate whiney fuckers like Pete Docherty more with drugs these days) will be begrudgingly accepted in a school environment, as its small potatoes compared to the actual amount of gang activity, bullying etc you would get a in London high school, and its also against human rights to deny people their culture whatever race/colour they may be when there isn’t major evidence of a drug problem associated with that culture (at least within a school).
Bear in mind also if there was a drugs problem in the school the headteacher will want to cover it up anyway.
