George Washington Preparatory High School is a secondary school that is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Washington has been notorious for its gang violence which is largley in part to its location that is in close in proximity to various rival gangs. It was the location for a 1987 TV movie entitled Hard Lessons depicting Denzel Washington as the new principle set on cleaning the high school and ridding it of gang violence, drugs and restoring educational values to the school. Secondary school may refer to Secondary school in the United Kingdom, is the general term for the schools for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen in most areas (a few areas have schools for 13-18 year olds instead, and these are called upper schools). ... The Los Angeles Unified School District ( the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ... Gang violence refers to mostly those illegal and non-political acts of violence perpetrated by gangs against innocent people, property, or other gangs. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... Denzel Washington Denzel Washington (born December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American Academy Award-winning actor. ...