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[quote=Anonymous]I went to Deerfield. I grew up in the South Bronx and there was a drama teacher at my middle school who decided I need more than life was going to give me at home. My mom is a waitress who gets fired a lot and has a lot of boyfriends. It was sort of like I had drive, but didn't know what direction to point it in.

So my drama teacher pushed me to apply, and pushed me to get financial aid forms filled out. I remember her saying to my mother on the phone, "If I bring you a carton of smokes, THEN will you find your taxes from last year?" My mother made that teacher give her the carton AND take us out to a nice dinner too.

But I got my application in, and was accepted. My mother bitched that I wasn't home to work after school, but she was also proud, although didn't really understand what exactly to brag about, like she didn't get that New England was a group of states but MA was one state.

It was great for me, I was really independent and didn't crave the approval of other kids so much, so peer pressure was not an issue for me. I made lots of friends, some of whom I'm still friends with now, and got into a fantastic college that took my life in a great direction.

My school was ... in the South Bronx. I am white. That should pretty much tell you everything you need to know about my public school experience. My DD has a similar drive to the one I had but unless she asks, I don't intend to send her to boarding school.[/quote]

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