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Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:35 pm to shotcaller1
I have an uncle who was extremely smart but arrogant as frick and self destructive to the point where he could not be controlled. Boarding schools were made for guys like him. Still an arrogant frick up, but he was engaging in behaviors at the time that would have seen him in an early grave, like doing cocaine in the 9th grade.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:35 pm to QuietTiger
Wife (no pics) works at one. Tons of foreign kids.
China, Korea, Russia, or Mexico. Or the burbs in the US?
Chinese kids it is absolutely for networking and business and learning functional English. Even the way we ‘Mericans butcher it.
China, Korea, Russia, or Mexico. Or the burbs in the US?
Chinese kids it is absolutely for networking and business and learning functional English. Even the way we ‘Mericans butcher it.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:37 pm to shotcaller1
From my very limited knowledge of the situation, I understand that if you send your child to a school that belongs to the "Eight Schools Association" (Choate, Andover, Exeter, and the other 5) it gives the kid a big head start on their future. Those schools place tons of grads into the Ivy league schools and other top notch schools (like Standford). The networking at those schools also can't be beat.
Now that means that you need to be able to spend 6 digits on high school.
Now that means that you need to be able to spend 6 digits on high school.
This post was edited on 9/29/17 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:38 pm to shotcaller1
If I have kids, I will send them to boarding school l
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:43 pm to shotcaller1
Culture, for one. And to get a proper education. Boarding school also teaches you how to take of yourself.
Look at ISL schools in general. There are exceptions though. Like Governor Dumber, or Rivers.
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Eight Schools Association
Look at ISL schools in general. There are exceptions though. Like Governor Dumber, or Rivers.
This post was edited on 9/29/17 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:52 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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If I have kids, I will send them to boarding school l
Farm work and homeschool from 5-14, then off to Indian Springs.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:56 pm to HempHead
I could have used the structure and environment. When you go to public school with mostly losers like I did, it's too easy to become complacent.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 6:58 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
If you're of above average intelligence, and socially competent, non-selective public school becomes a joke and doesn't prepare you for any kind of rigorous regimen.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:01 pm to shotcaller1
Because they are a pain in the arse and your life is pretty much over for 18 years once you have one.
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:03 pm to shotcaller1
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Why do people send kids to boarding school
To learn how to cut wood...duh!
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:07 pm to shotcaller1
As someone who worked for an independent boarding school, it's because they can afford it without batting an eye and it almost ensures an Ivy League acceptance letter.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:12 pm to shotcaller1
i went to boarding school and loved it. Kids were there for different reasons. Some had parents that had died, parents that had jobs where they traveled and they wanted the kids to be in a stable place, some were badasses, some kids just wanted to be there because it was a great place to be.
We had great teachers and since the kids all lived in dorms we were like family to each other. e had a lot of fun. Sometimes it was like a slumber party that never ended.
I am sill in touch with my friends from there and with the teachers too. It's funny because we confess to our teachers the stuff we thought we had gotten away with. Nope, they knew about it.
They used to love when the guys would go on beer runs and hike to the store to get beer then bust them when they got back and confiscate the beer from them and drink it
We had great teachers and since the kids all lived in dorms we were like family to each other. e had a lot of fun. Sometimes it was like a slumber party that never ended.
I am sill in touch with my friends from there and with the teachers too. It's funny because we confess to our teachers the stuff we thought we had gotten away with. Nope, they knew about it.
They used to love when the guys would go on beer runs and hike to the store to get beer then bust them when they got back and confiscate the beer from them and drink it
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:35 pm to HempHead
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Ranch work and homeschool from 5-14, then off to Woodberry Forest.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:43 pm to Walking the Earth
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Are you asking about the Andovers and Exeters, the military schools for those needing some discipline, the school prisons for the wayward little shits that have already murdered one pet and/or set the house on fire by age 10 or all of those?
There are also boarding schools for those academically gifted.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:44 pm to Collegedropout
Cattle work is too intensive and land-consuming. I can make the same income from 50 acres of speciality produce and small-scale livestock that I'd get from 1000 acres of cattlehead. Better you than me baw.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 7:44 pm to EA6B
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There are also boarding schools for those academically gifted.
*and connected
Posted on 9/29/17 at 8:57 pm to EA6B
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There are also boarding schools for those academically gifted.
Yep. I graduated when I was 16 and was already taking correspondence courses thru LSU. I didn't like the public schools but was very happy at boarding school. I got to take advanced classes if I wanted and the teachers lived with us so they really took an interest in us accomplishing what we wanted.
It was also cool because we had people from other countries there. One of my suite mates was from Japan.
In England they send kids off to boarding school when they are as young as 8. That is crazy. I was a teen when I went so it was all fun.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 9:32 pm to gingerkittie
St. Paul's in Covington used to be a boarding school. My neighbor on the West Bank went there, in the 1980s because he wasn't all that academically accomplished, and couldn't make grades at Shaw. With the structure and discipline, he was more successful.
They attracted a lot of rich foreigners, too, mostly from Latin America, kind of like Ochsner does even now.
They attracted a lot of rich foreigners, too, mostly from Latin America, kind of like Ochsner does even now.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 9:43 pm to shotcaller1
The husband of my wife’s cousin went to Groton. He grew up “my dad is a neurosurgeon” rich, but one of his best friends to this day is someone he met there, and his dad is on the Fortune 500 list. It’s about connections more than academics.
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