<p>Good point bibdad! Watertester, to answer your question, if there had been a day school in our area of the calibre of BSs discussed here, he definitely would have stayed local. The point was definitely not to have him live away. Locally, there are good day schools, but not GREAT day schools. An opportunity to have a challenging academic curriculum (with lots of choices), great faculty, and fellow students who all want to learn was key in decision to look at BSs. Locally for us, nothing compared, and in the end, S begged us to let him go, and we also knew that he would take full advantage of the academic and extracurricular opportunities available to him. But it wasn’t an easy decision – my husband was opposed until after the revisits.</p>