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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about a US boarding school?[/quote]

The cases I am familiar with fall into one of two buckets, but neither is really a happy story.  YMMV.

(A) Parents were divorced or separated, and not able to cooperate on much, so children were sent to boarding around 8th/9th grade.  Kids were usually well educated at boarding school, but often felt a very crisp sense of “not being wanted” by their parents.

(B) Parents were strivers (and sometimes also were immigrants) and sent their DC to Deerfield, St Grottlesex, PEA, or similar NE boarding school to try to get kids into an Ivy.  Kids who got into an Ivy felt successful, but often felt isolated / were not well socially integrated with the other (e.g., legacy) students during boarding school.  Kids who did that but did not get into an Ivy felt like failures, in addition to having lived HS while a bit isolated socially from most other students.  Parents of kids who did not get into an Ivy were often upset with children for failing to get into an Ivy.[/quote]

I would add a category C for kids whose parents have high profile or some other demanding form of careers and aren't able to parent them full time . So in this case boarding school beats nanny (or team of nannies).  But for the rest of the world...I concur with the PP who said that even Hogwarts doesn't start til age 11 (best post on the thread!)[/quote]

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