Exclusive Boarding School Students??!!

Daykidmom
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:42:37 +0000

I’m sure different schools are different. For instance, you ask about Asians. My son (white) was a day student at a Jr. BS that had a large group of Asians. They seemed to hang around together pretty exclusively. They weren’t unfriendly, but were a clear clique. In his BS now, however, there are fewer Asians (as a percentage of the school as a whole), and they seem much less exclusive, although, of course, many of them are still friends (which you would expect-- often same culture, language, etc.). But my son’s best friend this year happens to be from South Korea. They spend lots of time hanging out together, sometimes alone, and sometimes in a group. When they’re in a group of other Koreans, everyone seems totally accepting of my son, and he’s gotten to know some of these other kids pretty well over time. This seems true of many groups-- there are more friendships across grades, cultures, backgrounds, etc. than there were at his old school. So there are definite groups, but they don’t seem so exclusive. He feels like the whole school is pretty friendly-- although I have heard him say it seems like the girls are more cliquey than the boys.