Homelike boarding schools

417WHB
Mon, 20 May 2019 15:47:03 +0000

The tricky part with this is also that kids change a ton over the four years, and so while homelike may be great for freshman by the time the kid is a junior they may well hate it. I know Hotchkiss kids in particular come back to NYC a ton on weekends junior/senior year and seem to manage to be at all the parties etc. Maybe if the school was more college like with things to do off campus this would not be the case (i know the parents don’t love it).
Most of the boarding school kids are quite old with repeating being rampant, so many kids are legal adults before they even hit their senior year. And at that point it has to be hard to be at one of the schools with lots of rules and hovering, especially when they see their non-BS friends with a lot more freedom. I realize schools know this and there are fewer rules for older kids (I think the mandatory study hall and bedtime goes away at some point at most of them) but it must be hard to make it developmentally appropriate for all.