re: Anyone here went to Chamberlain-Hunt Academy or other boarding schools in the South?

oh yeah, we played Ashford too. I went to Macon-East.

My tiny white boy school played a scrimmage against them in the early 2000s and they literally walked off their bus in prison orange jumpsuits

I was terrified

We demolished them

My dad was there for four years, finishing in 1936. He played football as a 150-pound tackle.

Same for the late 70’s to 1981 at Macon Academy in Tuskegee, AL.

Went to Stanislaus for two years in the mid 90's. Left and ended up graduation from Catholic. Stanislaus was a great place but a ton of bad apples. Couldn't help but laugh at all the Catholic high guys that thought they were bad dudes. And then there was the VC.... That's another story though

I had a couple friends that went there. They didn’t stay long once their parents figured out they placed zero emphasis on academics and just spent all the time torturing the kids.

Did 4 years at Stanislaus. Loved it. Sometimes when I can’t sleep I’ll go out into the hall and stand on the wall. Nothing feels better than getting in bed after spending an hour standing on the wall. Very few things feel worse than having your head cracked against the wall if Br Joseph caught you leaning against it.

The sluts across the street were not that bad either. I’m sure there were plenty nice girls too, just didn’t know any of them. Took many to Slidell on foty day before they raised the drinking age to 21.

I honestly felt bad for my friends that went to Catholic, it seemed more like a prison than Stanislaus. Every st pattys day parade and LSU game those dudes walked around with their heads on a swivel bc the school had CIA operatives in the crowds looking for kids to bust at school on Monday.

We used to play them sporadically in high school. Think the rigor of the school fluctuated at various points. When I was coming up, was def on its last legs, and the students were more, as a lot of commenters alluded to, there for purposes of reform. IIRC it had a day school function at some point because it needed the students/local parents didn’t want to send their kids to public school.

All that said bit of a strange place/relic of a bygone era. That whole Fayette/Port Gibson corridor has an older eerie feel to it.

Lyman Ward was where the wayward boys from Birmingham were sent.

I grew up near Vicksburg and a constant refrain from my youth was keep your nose clean or you’re going to Chamberlain Hunt. To me, it was synonymous with Parchment.

Edit: Parchman the state prison, not paper.