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<blockquote data-quote="eekysign" data-source="post: 222689" data-attributes="member: 6479"><p>My little sis just got booted out of a very good boarding school for behavioral issues (why she was booted, the SCHOOL is not for behavioral issues. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ). She's far from alone up there.</p><p></p><p>I would think it depends on whether you're talking regular boarding school or residential treatment type school. Regular boarding school is going to be a lot of wealthy kids, and a lot of ESL foreign kids. There's a lot of underground drug use at boarding schools. Scan Facebook or Myspace for "groups" related to any boarding school you might be looking at. For the schools we were evaluation'ing for difficult child sis, we found groups like, "My parents spent $120,000 for me to become an alcoholic" and groups that clearly described drinking, drug use, and stairwell/library stack/sports field sex. </p><p></p><p>Teens are teens. A strict boarding school might avert some of the behaviors you're scared of----but it'll probably leave a kid unable to function normally, and make good decisions AFTER boarding school on their own. A normal boarding school is going to be just like a public high school, socially, but with a LOT more opportunities to go bad---way too much money and bad habits and BAD home situations come with boarding school kids. Some kids go off to boarding school, like my difficult child sis, to try to find a good education and a place to "fit in". But a LOT of them are like your daughter, getting "shipped off" for misbehavior. </p><p></p><p>They're not all bad. But it mostly depends on your daughter learning to behave herself---my personal opinion is that boarding schools won't solve any sex problems. Maybe an all-girls school would, but that just raises other issues. Again, this is just what I've seen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eekysign, post: 222689, member: 6479"] My little sis just got booted out of a very good boarding school for behavioral issues (why she was booted, the SCHOOL is not for behavioral issues. ;) ). She's far from alone up there. I would think it depends on whether you're talking regular boarding school or residential treatment type school. Regular boarding school is going to be a lot of wealthy kids, and a lot of ESL foreign kids. There's a lot of underground drug use at boarding schools. Scan Facebook or Myspace for "groups" related to any boarding school you might be looking at. For the schools we were evaluation'ing for difficult child sis, we found groups like, "My parents spent $120,000 for me to become an alcoholic" and groups that clearly described drinking, drug use, and stairwell/library stack/sports field sex. Teens are teens. A strict boarding school might avert some of the behaviors you're scared of----but it'll probably leave a kid unable to function normally, and make good decisions AFTER boarding school on their own. A normal boarding school is going to be just like a public high school, socially, but with a LOT more opportunities to go bad---way too much money and bad habits and BAD home situations come with boarding school kids. Some kids go off to boarding school, like my difficult child sis, to try to find a good education and a place to "fit in". But a LOT of them are like your daughter, getting "shipped off" for misbehavior. They're not all bad. But it mostly depends on your daughter learning to behave herself---my personal opinion is that boarding schools won't solve any sex problems. Maybe an all-girls school would, but that just raises other issues. Again, this is just what I've seen. [/QUOTE]
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