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Have you considered boarding school?
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| Sounds like an ad for EHS. Is 18:21 also OP? |
Anonymous
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yes, I am considering it as soon as my child is too old for daycare. Then I'm shipping him off to NH.
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My husband went to Milton beginning in 10th grade. He grew up in NYC and actually started doing boarding school applications on his own because he was so miserable in Manhattan. My inlaws were absolutely terrified to let their baby go away at such a young age, but, in the end, it was the best decision for my husband.
The elite boarding schools have relationships with many colleges that are second to none. My husband said that kids could practically name the school they wanted to attend and the college counselors would make it happen for them. |
Anonymous
This explains why I, a public school kid from the midwest, did much better than they did in college. I got in based on merit- not connections. |
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The elite boarding schools have relationships with many colleges that are second to none. My husband said that kids could practically name the school they wanted to attend and the college counselors would make it happen for them.
When was this? |
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A friend sent her son to boarding school because he was having trouble (I should say causing trouble) at his public school. He went back to public school after one year, but did regret leaving the school because he felt the connections would have helped him get into an elite college. Instead he went to a public university.
Another friend sent her daughters to boarding school because there was NOTHING for them, education or culture, in their small midwestern city. Her daughters loved their school. I would NEVER send my kids to boarding school, no matter what. It will kill me when they go to college, and I'm not letting them live away from me before that. Nor, do I think, would they want to go, but if they did, I would not let them. |
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Anonymous
| My daughter is a day student at a local boarding school. The girls are normal ambitious studious high school kids. Boarding school is not reform school. As to college admissions, the process at her school does not seem to be any different than at any of the top private schools in DC. |
Anonymous
| Genius Idea! I plan on sending my daughter, because she is the smart/independent type... she gets picked on a little, because she is rather intelligent. She is told to use "smaller words". |
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I went to Milton and loved it -- great values, talented teachers; very smart kids who are motivated and interested in learning; most of my closest friends still today; competitive to get into and nothing to do with reform school... sure the college counselors have good relationships with a lot of colleges, but i would not say you could just name the college and get in -- far from it. the process was like applying from any other private school.
Would I send my kids to boarding school? It's hard to imagine living that far away from them, but we'll have to see what interests them when they get to that point. It's not for everyone. It takes a certain amount of self discipline. Mom wasn't proof reading my papers or making sure i went to class or doing my homework. |
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Parents,
Take it from a parent who made a HUGE mistake by sending her child to boarding school: DON'T DO IT! -Unless there's some sort of unique home situation, maybe. -And I mean REALLY bad, which we didn't have. It really is not for most American kids. |
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I think many elite boarding schools offer terrific academic opportunities. My DH and many and many of my college friends went to boarding school. None were "problem" kids-- most just came from the kind of old money WASP families where it was just taken for granted that at 13 or 14, you went off to Exeter or wherever. Many of my friends have very happy memories of boarding school.
All that said, i went to public school, as did many of my other friends, and never felt less well-prepared than my boarding school pals. Good public schools are very good, and I came from a family of academics, too, so I did much more reading and talking about intellectual questions at home than plenty of my boarding school friends. (Many of them had not-very-intellectual families-- think Wall Street. Smart, successful, but often not very intellectual.) I hate the thought of having my children be away from home. That said, if they wanted to go, I would let them; my own parents would not let me go to boarding school when I was a teen and wanted to go, and I have never quite forgiven them. Not because i think boarding school is inherently the best option-- I just think it would have been better for me at that moment in my life. |
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(Many of them had not-very-intellectual families-- think Wall Street. Smart, successful, but often not very intellectual.)
Okay -- not my experience. I went to boarding school, as did both my parents, who i'd classify as "intellectual" -- both Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude grads of top colleges with advanced degrees who like to talk about books and history and ideas. In my class were children of academics, journalists, writers, former Supreme Court clerks, future Supreme Court justices -- also coaches, elementary school teachers, clerical workers, librarians, social workers, lawyers, book publishers, diplomats, doctors. A little more range than just Wall Street types. |
Anonymous
My son is at a prep school now. Considering applying to boarding school in a few years. It sounds like there was socio-economic diversity in your class. Do you mind sharing the name of the school you attended? |