<p>A friend of mine who is the father of my best friend when my wife and I were starting to consider boarding schools made the following point --that Americans keep teenagers in the house when they are extremely unpleasant to be around and then once they emerge from teenager-hood and are wonderful to be around we send them away to college-- when in reality, if we were smart-- we would send them away as teenagers and have them back when they get older. haha–but he has a point.</p>