<p>In my neck of the woods (upstate NY), I can count on one hand the number of kids I know who go to boarding school. And two of them are mine. Everyone knows that my daughter and I are close, and the question I got over and over again was “How can you let her go?” My response: “You know (daughter’s name), how could I not?” I got a lot of “I could never let MY kid go…” as if to suggest I am a bad parent for saying yes. And finally, of course I got the “How can you afford bs?” The obvious response, to me at least, was the higher cost of not letting her follow an ambitious dream.
For the record, our school here is outstanding, but predictable. My daughter craved diversity and more than got it. I couldn’t have been happier.
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