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[quote=Anonymous]OP seems to want people to support their mistaken assumption that boarding schools coddle students and all their peers are wealthy and privileged. I went to boarding school, and as a PP said, it was MORE racially and socioeconomically diverse than the wealthy suburban public school I might otherwise have attended. Boarding school forces kids to learn to be independent. My senior year of HS, when I traveled alone to admitted students' days at various colleges, everyone seemed surprised that I didn't need Mommy holding my hand. Why on earth would I need my parents to take time off from work to travel with me to a college that was 50 miles from my boarding school, but 1,000 miles from my parents' house? I took a Greyhound bus there (yes, as a teenage girl traveling alone, and yes, there were some creepy weirdos at the bus station, but I survived). It wasn't hard.

When I went to college, I was able to hit the ground running, while some of the other kids were crying about being homesick, and also realizing that their public high school didn't prepare them to compete with kids who went to Deerfield or whatever.

-also a former latchkey kid, it's not a mark of distinction[/quote]

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