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[quote=Anonymous]OP, please ignore all the people who speculate from the outside.  I have a son who was in an identical spot, except that he went down in flames with FCPS distance learning.  I never considered boarding school until this spring when I saw the trajectory he was headed in (lonely, disaffected, lethargic.)  My son is an introvert too so I was shocked that he was open to the idea of boarding school.  Fast forward to toda,y two months into the school year at a boarding school, and you've never seen such a change.  He's happy, really loving the independence, on a sports team and has a ton of In-Real-Life friends. He's learning responsibility, that there are other adults who care besides just his parents, and how to manage himself in a way that would probably be hard to do under my roof (he knows mom will always help.)  This 14 year old boy has actually noted how appreciative he is for his engaged, constructive (and not overwhelmed with hundreds of students) teachers. Just this last weekend he was telling me that he feels more connected with his boarding school community in two months than he did in the entire two years of his large FCPS middle school.  Your reasoning is solid and boarding schools can be great for kids.   Let small-minded people think what they will.  [/quote]

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