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Nelly,
I have moved lbftw off of the troll list now, as he has added some personal evidence to his argument (about 10 posts ago) that boarding school has problems. Prior to that, the summation of posts I saw were negative generalizations that anyone could rattle off whether or not they went to boarding school.
I can see that a student who doesn't really want to go to boarding school will often be much more bothered by those problems than someone who goes a boarding school because it it their idea. And sadly enough, many kids do fake wanting to go to a school at the interview, just to please their parents. And admissions folks can be fooled by good actors.
In the adult experience, this would be similar to the attitudes expressed by people who have experienced a bad marraige and stayed in it because it was expected of them. They tend to focus on those negative parts of the experience that wouldn't bother a happily married adult that much.
Glad to see some light after all this heat...
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