St. Paul's School Concord NH

DuckDuk
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:00:14 +0000

Thank your for your reply @Publisher. It really is like sending her off to college early- minus all the years of arguments about curfews and who gets the car.

You make a good point. My daughter is pretty sure she want to go to boarding school. It’s hard for me to pull from her more solid reasons other than she would love the independence and responsibility. She says she thinks she would do well with some structure. And she would like to have the challenge. All of that you can argue, she would get at Lakeside.

I think the hardest part for me is that she is going to be “raised” in her teen years by another community/family. A really good one at that! And I worry that I won’t get to be a part of that growth. If she were to be at Lakeside, she’d probably get annoyed at me asking her about her daily activities and if she had lunch (what she interprets as nagging). @GoatMama summarized this well - thank you for the links!

There is also a worry that it won’t be a good fit. We can’t visit the campus because they are on Spring Break and this whole COVID-19 thing. So really, we will not know til day 1. Websites for all the private schools look great and it’s hard to tell.

I can’t tell, but it seems like there are formal parties and dinners. Do all the kids "have to " attend? Is there generally any pressure to conform to some of the events on campus or do you think there is quite a bit of room for everyone to do their own thing?