I just read this and am feeling very sorry to hear about your child’s experience. My son is a freshman day student attending a 70% boarding/ 30% day school. He is not an outgoing kid and in the summer even made an announcement to us that he wouldn’t be able to make a single friend in his high school. However, his school has really put in lots of effort to integrate day and boarding students into one community. Every day student has an assigned dorm for them to go to when they are on campus. He eats all three meals at school, and after dinner he hangs out at friends’ room or library and do homework together. We usually pick him up between 8-9 at night. His school has classes on Saturday mornings and sports competitions in the afternoons. Once in a while school has activities on Sundays, like a field day in September. We don’t feel there’s a distinct separation between day and boarding students. We barely see him except for Sundays when he spends at home with us.
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