Homelike boarding schools

Temperantia
Tue, 21 May 2019 17:05:01 +0000

@417WHB and @cinnamon1212 , I have two kids at Hotchkiss as well. And they do have a bunch of NYC friends and they do visit them in the city on vacations but by reading many threads on this site you would think that they go in every weekend. That’s just not the case. Many Saturdays they have classes and sports and even if they could go to NYC, it takes about 3 hours door-to-door so going in for a random Saturday night isn’t very practical. And there are permissions hoops that need to be cleared before you can leave campus too. It just does not happen often while school is in session. There also seems to be an assumption in many threads that these kids are somehow warped by their privilege and big city ways. My kids’ friends from NYC are all very nice, grounded kids.

If being homelike is about support and sense of community, I’d say Hotchkiss has a great sense of community and school spirit. As for support, it’s there but self-advocacy is important.