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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't yet read all the posts to this thread, but have to say, I am laughing. Daughter #1 transferred to one of what us known on college confidential a "HADES" schools.  #2 is currently at a highly regarded New England school, studying abroad this year. Both had been in MCPS; both asked to go. No boarding or private school tradition in our families. We're a normal, happy, close family that loves each other.

It's been fantastic. I feel like we -- and must importantly they -- won the lottery.

And in a way we have. All the folks here who talk about the great local options... Ahem... Perhaps if you're full pay, and even then a whole lot of kids chasing very few slots. But if you need financial aid? (We're typical well-educated DC-area government worker / nonprofit professional types.) Lots of luck. There's no way my kids would have been able to attend a "big three" (let alone others) because the money just isn't there in the same way. At boarding school we're paying a fraction of what local private school would cost and my kids are getting a superior education. The worries about drugs... "caffeine abuse"... And multiple other horrors ascribed to boarding school? Keep telling yourselves that, Lol. (As if that stuff doesn't exist everywhere, both private and public.)  Just means more opportunities to those savvy families and kids who have figured out a way to get world class educations and experiences for themselves. [/quote]

I agree that the top boarding schools offer an unparalleled education.  The education I had there was superior to what I received at the Ivy League college I attended.  Nothing else came close.

But while my sibling and I went to an excellent boarding school, and the educational experience was transformative for me, I would still never send my kids to boarding school barring some sort of unusual circumstance.  Adolescence can be a fraught time, and I want to be there parenting my kid as best I can during those years.  I don't personally regret attending boarding school but I do not believe that it served my relationship with my parents well.  This is even truer for my sibling, who started boarding school younger than I did.[/quote]

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