<p>I am dumbfounded by the post suggesting boarding school as a routine cure for adjustment and socialization issues. Perhaps there are some boarding schools out there specializing in those sorts of issues, but by and large, most boarding schools are socialization nightmares-- and have always been thus. Boarding school magnifies the affects observed in every high school social system. Boarding school socialization is rigidly power based and those with less power are punished by their peers just as they are in day schools (but for 24 hours a day rather than 7). Adolescents with good peer social skills can do very well in the boarding school environment, but those without those skills will suffer even more than they do at home (although perhaps the parents will not have to observe it).</p>
<p>Frankly I have real trouble believing that there are still mental health proffessionals out there positing that most child development issues are the result of poor parenting…</p>