<p>Your child is a day student? I know she just started, but any issues w/ being day V boarding? We are looking on a day basis as well…</p>
<p>No she is a boarder even though we live nearby. We put her in a dorm to make more friends and to be more social. She enjoys that life. She has been a straight A student for last eight years. Obviously she has more work to do every night and she spends more time on academic, and she participates in sports every day. She drives herself to manage time effcetively. I am so glad to see her try to manage her time not to waste any time. I do not see any issue with being day/boarder. She spends more time with boarder because they spend more time at dorm, so I do not know much about day students. But I can tell there is not any issue with being a boader. She make friends with some girls from south korea and Texas. She loves it. I was a kind of hesitating when I decided Saint Mark’s over other schools. Now we believe that we made a really wise choice because the school is close to us and we can visit anyt ime. I think it is a really important factor. If you are think about day option, that is fine, too. I saw a few students spend a night with their boarder friends at dorm. I don;t think there is any difference between day and boarder. The only thing is that you have to deal with an irregular pickup time one in a while.</p>
<p>Thanks v much. Glad your child is doing well!</p>
<p>Day schools definitely have sports events on weekends - and I would imagine that sailing events would often been on weekends.
From my modest understanding - Milton and Nobles are both ‘high power’ places - very strong academics and sports, but also a lot of pressure. Rivers is much less high pressure. The sports are still very strong, although I believe the choices are more limited since the school is smaller.
I know Rivers kids spent 2 to 4 hours/night on homework on average, and imagine that Milton and Nobles are probably closer to the 4 hour end.</p>
<p>Both boarding students and day students have games schedules on weekends(Saturday). There is not separate schedule for boarder and day. They form a team with both day students and baorder. Since they have to play with other schools in the Independent School league. the schedule is designed with other schools they play with. The games are scheduled on Wednesday and Saturday. </p>
<p>I found an interseting story about St. Mark’s sports:
St. Mark’s traditional athletic rival is the younger Groton School. St. Mark’s high school football rivalry since 1886 with the Groton School is one of the oldest athletic rivalries in the United States, following the Andover-Exeter rivalry. They have a joint alumni as well.</p>
<p>The two schools have met in regularly scheduled athletic contests for more than a century. (See the List of high school football rivalries for more information.)</p>
<p>Baseball’s catcher’s mask was first used in 1875 by a St. Marks School catcher. It was originally a fencing helmet he modified so as to protect his broken nose. A Harvard baseball player by the name of Fred Thayer was playing on the opposing team that day and by 1878 Thayer had gotten a patent on it.</p>
<p>check
[St</a>. Mark’s School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark’s_School]St”>St. Mark's School - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>You might look at some single sex schools as well—if your child is a girl, Winsor has strong sports and a high-powered academic program, comparable to Milton in level of challenge. Two boys’ schools that are different from each other but both strong in sports are Roxbury Latin and Belmont Hill. All three of these schools are on the smaller side compared to Milton and Nobles and have very impressive college placements. Winsor does some combined activities with both RL and BH.</p>
<p>Academically, RL may be the finest independent school in the country.
Athletically, they can’t touch BH, though in fairness, few can. BH is also offers great academics.</p>