Homelike boarding schools

CateCAParent
Fri, 17 May 2019 18:30:34 +0000

We started out looking for a “college light” experience, just one that wasn’t going to be really cut-throat or wealth-oriented. Kiddo was always very independent, and seemed “ready to launch” in a lot of ways, so “college light” seemed the way to go. In the end, the schools he got accepted to were the ones that were on the more structured and supervised end of the spectrum. They knew something we didn’t.

While I think he would have been fine in a school that there was more college-y, he is learning discipline, time management and organizational skills that he didn’t know he needed. He has always gotten by without them (and honestly his parents are not great role models for). He is just learning them with some scaffolding around him first. It isn’t so “sink or swim” like I suspect it might be elsewhere. Over four years the school gradually takes away the scaffolding, and THEN he is really ready to launch. That approach makes sense to me for my kid. He would just skip to the end if someone didn’t slow him down and make sure he actually was developing the fundamental skills before he needs them.