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[quote=Anonymous]I went to boarding school at 14. I sure hope there are more supports now, because when I was there it was pretty Lord of the Flies - not because of bullying or anything, but just that the adults (to me) were sort of like the adults in Charlie Brown. They were there, but kids were the real voices in my head.

They did our laundry, but I had to carry it in a bag half a mile from my dorm to the laundry facility (in the winter in subzero temps). So most people did as much laundry as they could in the sink. The laundry also turned everyone's whites pink, since our school color was maroon and the school issued atheletic warm up pants bled in the wash.

No one checked if you went to meals, went to bed, got up for class, did your homework. I was too shy to go to meals alone and so my freshman year I subsisted on Snickers bars from the basement vending machine.

My kid is now the age I was when I left for boarding school. I am not sending him, because he doesn't want to go and he is in a fine school where he is. But I would send a kid who wanted to go and who would thrive with that level of independence. Some do. I eventually did. Took me a little floundering, but by the time I was a junior I was pretty much a grown up, and handled my life capably.  [/quote]

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