The sun glistened across the turquoise water. The palm trees shimmered in the warm breeze. For a certain set of high school seniors from New York, spring break on Paradise Island in the Bahamas was underway.

Last week, hundreds of teenagers from about a dozen private high schools engaged in what has become an unsanctioned tradition, frolicking across the powdery beaches of the luxury Atlantis Bahamas resort and its “14-acre waterscape” of swimming pools, beaches, waterfalls and stingray-filled lagoons.

Some dined at the resort’s Nobu restaurant where $34 sashimi and $65 lobster salad are on the menu. Some dressed all in white for a “white-out party” at a nightclub called Waterloo. Some launched themselves through a clear, tubular water slide surrounded by sharks.

As one student from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, recognizing his good fortune as he was sunning himself on the beach Wednesday afternoon, put it: “No care in the world.”

In a city where a growing economic divide sometimes shows up most prominently in classrooms, this kind of extravagance is out of reach for most students. It is a closed-off world of wealth and connections many will never set foot in: Even before deciding on which college they will attend this fall, these teenagers, from some of the most elite and expensive high schools in the United States,66br Cassinos ao Vivo Brasil mingle among the next generation’s upper crust.

In most cases, the students’ parents were paying the nearly $3,000 bill, not including meals.

The trip, arranged by a tour company called GradCity, also offered a networking opportunity for America’s future power brokers. The private high schools historically have produced alumni who fill positions in the nation’s top echelons of political, financial and other influential institutions.

The data suggests that some of the tools used to combat opioid overdoses, such as naloxone, the overdose-reversing medication, were having a significant impact. But researchers and federal and state health officials have puzzled over the exact reasons for the decrease, including why overdoses have fallen so much in recent months.

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