What do boarding schools provide..

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It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Anyone who can afford the tuition is by definition rich. Don’t kid yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Anyone who can afford the tuition is by definition rich. Don’t kid yourself.

One of my neighbors did a stint in Afghanistan as a contractor to afford tuition so no, not everyone is rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Can you share where they are? We are looking at St. Andrews in Delaware and The Hill School in PA.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Can you share where they are? We are looking at St. Andrews in Delaware and The Hill School in PA.

NP. I know a current student at the Hill school and they are very happy there and they had in person classes for the entire school year.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Anyone who can afford the tuition is by definition rich. Don’t kid yourself.

You understand that there is financial aid, right? I went to one of these schools, and nearly half the class received financial aid. I had friends who were on almost a full scholarship. It changed their lives.

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They’ll be expelled. Most elite boarding schools expel a lot of students for much much less. Also, many are located in the middle of nowhere. Try finding a mall much less a dealer. Lots of trees and fresh air and sunshine.

Hah. I went to college with a lot of people who went to these elite boarding schools and they all did drugs and worse while in high school. They were pretty messed up.

So you went to a college where the bottom 1/4 druggie crowd went.

Uh, no. I went to a top 10 university, so I really doubt they were the “bottom 1/4”.

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They’ll be expelled. Most elite boarding schools expel a lot of students for much much less. Also, many are located in the middle of nowhere. Try finding a mall much less a dealer. Lots of trees and fresh air and sunshine.

Hah. I went to college with a lot of people who went to these elite boarding schools and they all did drugs and worse while in high school. They were pretty messed up.

So you went to a college where the bottom 1/4 druggie crowd went.

Uh, no. I went to a top 10 university, so I really doubt they were the “bottom 1/4”.

NP. So you went to a top 10 uni where the messed up drug users and worse from elite boarding schools went

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They’ll be expelled. Most elite boarding schools expel a lot of students for much much less. Also, many are located in the middle of nowhere. Try finding a mall much less a dealer. Lots of trees and fresh air and sunshine.

Hah. I went to college with a lot of people who went to these elite boarding schools and they all did drugs and worse while in high school. They were pretty messed up.

So you went to a college where the bottom 1/4 druggie crowd went.

Hate to break it to you, but those kids end up at ivies more often than not. The kid who can afford a coke habit at Hotchkiss is probably a development admit

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Anonymous wrote:That elite private schools can’t?

The kind of lifetime connections that people think elite privates give you

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Anonymous wrote:It's been amazing for my kids. And they actually had school during the past year!!! It's an incredible opportunity for kids to grow and mature, and no its not someone else raising your kids (as my own DH thought, when he insisted that boarding schools "mortified" him) Even dh would agree what a fantastic experience its been--the faculty, the other students (who are not all rich or spoiled or american), the arts and sports opportunities. My kids have attended smallish boarding schools within two hours of DC.

Anyone who can afford the tuition is by definition rich. Don’t kid yourself.

You understand that there is financial aid, right? I went to one of these schools, and nearly half the class received financial aid. I had friends who were on almost a full scholarship. It changed their lives.

My friend from HS that went to Andover was from a pretty middle class family. I don’t think he even got financial aid. His family owned a very modest ranch house, and ran a family business that has long since gone bust. The public schools we had were not great and there were only two private schools—one very religious and one full of not very smart spoiled rich kids. So they scrimped to send him to Andover and he loved it. So I think there are some kids from UMC families who come from areas where there are not good day school options or whose parents have other reasons they can’t stay at home (eg parents on long-term work assignments to unsafe countries, etc.)

[Anonymous]

It's a wonderful, life changing opportunity for kids from a home life that's not too happy - parents gone all the time, or fighting, an unhappy marriage, abuse of some type

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They’ll be expelled. Most elite boarding schools expel a lot of students for much much less. Also, many are located in the middle of nowhere. Try finding a mall much less a dealer. Lots of trees and fresh air and sunshine.

Hah. I went to college with a lot of people who went to these elite boarding schools and they all did drugs and worse while in high school. They were pretty messed up.

So you went to a college where the bottom 1/4 druggie crowd went.

Hate to break it to you, but those kids end up at ivies more often than not. The kid who can afford a coke habit at Hotchkiss is probably a development admit

Development cases maybe but even they need stellar grades and test scores... just not as stellar as the other admits. Hotchkiss will expel for drug use development or not. Private schools with multimillion dollar endowments can be picky.

It’s much more difficult to get into the Ivies now so you don’t have to worry about rich drug using losers from elite prep schools getting in. Really.

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Anonymous wrote:Access to good coke

And eating disorders.

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And eating disorders.

Right, like day schools are immune from either