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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would expect 12 year old boarding school kids to be brats who the parents couldn’t tolerate keeping at home. Why are you putting a nice kid there?[/quote]

To all those criticizing OP for sending DC to a boarding school. 
Boarding school for 12 year olds is very common in other countries. I grew up in England where boarding school does not mean a problem child and is common for 12 and up. [/quote]

I have family members who went at 11 in the UK, but they were a different profile than Op's kid. Kids like my cousins typically have 1. Native or near-native fluency in English. Even the international kids in English boarding schools usually either grow up in English-speaking homes OR attend English-language day schools starting with preschool. and 2. Before enrolling in boarding school, most go to schools that send a lot of kids to boarding schools (either in the UK or internationally) and therefore have a curriculum that emphasizes "readiness" for boarding school. In other words, a lot of lessons are focused on executive functioning and independence.

Dropping a kid with poor English skills who can't care for himself independently in a boarding school at that age is a recipe for disaster. [/quote]

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