<p>There is a well-known artist / art teacher / art author named Deb Rockman, who may well be this ■■■■■ ([ArtPrize</a> - Deborah Rockman - An open art contest based in Grand Rapids Michigan, the world’s largest Art Prize.](<a href=“http://artprize.org/artist/id/91]ArtPrize”>http://artprize.org/artist/id/91) and <a href=“http://www.debrockman.com/resume/resume.pdf[/url]”>www.debrockman.com/resume/resume.pdf</a>. If it’s the same person, she says: “In examining the powerful role of those responsible for the welfare and development of our most significant and vulnerable resource - our children - it becomes apparent that a learned legacy of ignorance, neglect and abuse continues to thrive even while we turn away in denial or disbelief.” </p>
<p>For whatever reason, perhaps as a result of painful circumstances in her own life, she has determined that the ONLY way to bring children up correctly is to keep them close at hand until the last possible second. A person holding her views would never approve of boarding school and would never accept that a child could be loved as deeply and well by parents who would choose that path for their teenager versus parents who would choose to keep their children at home in Indiana. And certainly no child raised by a godless boarding school institution could produce an adult who is honorable, loving and contributes to the world positively and meaningfully.</p>
<p>It would be especially maddening to Deb that so many on this site would respect, praise, accept and support boarding schools. The idea that boarding school parents see the experience of sending their children away as an act of selfless love – doing what’s best for their child even if it means missing him or her terribly every second of every day – is an anathema to Deb, a non sequitur, a violation of a sacred bond. The additional fact that we parents have the gall to think of boarding school as a desirable, elite choice is salt in Deb’s self-inflicted wounds.</p>