What’re everyone’s thoughts on boarding schools vs a normal private school vs private schools? Is the education worth the delta? Do kids feel like they have absentee parents when they go to boarding school?

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Everyone I’ve known who went to a fancy boarding school is either a completely out of touch POS, a drug addict, or both.
Growing up around the super wealthy has a way of making people detached from the kind of things that “normal” people deal with.
I’ve heard junior consultants who grew up with say some really awful stuff about line workers who were HS grads, not really thinking of them as individuals and people but a class who is incapable of making good decisions. They were quickly made aware of the fact that was not acceptable.

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I went to a top public high school and prep school. Both were filled with affluent kids that had affluent kid problems: bullying, absent parents, drug / alcohol abuse, and generally, being out of touch.

I grew up solidly upper middle class and my grandmother paid my prep school fees. I recognize how lucky I was to get a great education. I graduated from a great public high school after my parents withdrew me from the prep school over philosophical differences.

At the end of the day, you have to weigh what is the best learning environment for the student in question. There is no right answer.

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I went to a boarding school as a low-income first-gen. The quality of teaching + resources was amazing, and I met people from all over the world. A subset of kids were out-of-touch... But I would highly recommend to anybody

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In my experience, kids that wanted to go to boarding school loved boarding school. Kids that got sent to boarding school bc their parents wanted them to go, tended to hate it

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What’s the difference between option 2 and 3?

Ours go to private day school. We’d miss them too much if they went away to board.

We live in NYC and the private school options are excellent - perhaps we would feel differently if we lived in another part of the country, I don’t know.

Completely agree that there is no one best school - depends on the alchemy of the child and the philosophy of the school.

I went to public school and when I went to an elite university, I realized how far behind I was compared with the majority of my classmates. And I had taken AP classes, etc. I vowed I would never let this happen to my kids. Recently it was time to find a program for my son and toured a local private school and it was amazing - multilingual education, STEM lab, vast art/creative amenities, pool, and musical instruments provided for the kids as they grow. Don’t see how public school can compare with this.

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