Help! which prep school is best for a brainy kid: Boston

toadstool
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:46:41 +0000

Beware Day student status if your school is more then 20 minutes away. We lived through 3 years of 45-minutes one-way and it had major downsides.

The students spend more then 1.5 hours per day in a car - time lost to homework, ECs, sports etc. One is cut out of evening and social events. And the 9th Circle of… is when the school has events on Saturday and Sunday two weekends in a row, which means that you’ve spent 6 hours per day in the care for 19 days with no break.

Don’t underestimate the toll on the student or on the parents of the commute.