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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in the UK for a few years. There is a huge discussion of "Boarding School Syndrome", which is believed to be characterized by lack of empathy and difficulties forming relationships. It isn't an official diagnosis, and there hasn't been a lot of research. What people do note is that the Conservative Party MPs who have been running the country for 14 years seem to have a distinct lack of empathy, and they are largely boarding school alums. I think it is difficult to learn to be a functioning person if you are doing most of your learning from other tweens. It is your parents' example of adulthood that you learn from.[/quote] My upper crust British friend sent her kid off to the best boarding school and then he went to Oxford or Cambridge or whatnot. She sounded wistful for the lost years, in retrospect. It seemed the only done option though, for the opportunities and to build the peer group. Shes making up for it with the grandbabies now. Kid is wildly successful in a predictable, lawyer career way.[/quote]
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