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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every adult I know who went to boarding school is damaged in a unique way.  Essentially, they were rejected by their parents at a young age and list a part of their soul.  [/quote]

This is BS.  I went to a competitive day school but had a lot of friends in college who went boarding and have a good number of friends in adulthood who did.  There’s not a statistically significant difference in mental health.  I think the boarding school kids excelled in college, not especially academically as their academics weren’t too superior to a lot of the schools other kids went to, but they were so much more prepared for the school/life balance and being away from home.  9/11 was my freshman year, we were all from the north east.  The boarding school kids kept it together and the rest of us were at a borderline melt down unable to contact parents, friends, etc all 2 weeks into the year.  That’s just one example though - there are upsides and downsides to growing up too quickly - but in terms of life skills I can’t imagine a better situation that boarding.[/quote]

Umm, so an example of how nonplussed the boarding school kids were about 9-11 compared to the rest of the kids who were worried sick about their parents and friends isn’t the best example to refute PP’s claim that the boarding school kids felt rejected by their parents and had no soul. Just sayin [/quote]

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