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Q: What is a good boarding school for my teenager?
My teenage daughter has been dying to go to boarding school. So i thought i might look into it. Do you have any recommendations of a good boarding school? Also she is 13 and will be starting high school next year.

A: http://www.ourkids.net/ Has suggestions for good schools Add some more info and I will help you out - what are you looking for? Excellent academics, sports, arts programs? Do you have a price range? Do you have a particular part of the world in mind? Big city or small town? PS I work in a boarding school!

Q: What are the main differences between boarding school and a regular high school?
Hi would anyone be able to tell me what is the difference between boarding school and a regular high school? What each are like and the positives and negatives of both. It would be really interesting to hear from someone who has been to both. Thanks.

A: I came across your question & I'm sorry but I don't know anything about boarding schools & I don't know how to answer it =/ I looked it up a little & found this though: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmCFCYXZjx6xCtKzfSClp6kjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080819140658AAhf2G1 hope more people answer your question =)

Q: How to start a boot camp boarding school?
I would like to know how would I go about getting a boot camp boarding school started. I want it to be run like a boot camp but be a boarding school as well for troubled teens who have been kicked out of school. Can someone please tell me where to start?

A: any training in education? depending on locality there are requirements like facilities, teachers, licenses. start with the council or board in charge of educarion in your area.

Q: What the heck did the boarding school use in salad instead of dressing.. Lemon and something, anyone know?
When making salads in boarding school, the would mix lemon juice and a couple other things. I remember that it tasted really good and I'm wanting to include it in dinner tonight. Do you know?

A: LEMON-POPPY SEED DRESSING Makes 1 cup - 55 calories per tablespoon. 1/2 cup frozen lemonade concentrate, undiluted 2 tbsp. oil 1 tsp. poppy seeds 1/3 cup honey Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl. Beat with rotary beater until smooth. Serve over fruit salad. http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1915,147169-230207,00.html

Q: How do I convince my mom to let me go to boarding school?
I go to a private day school now and i'm looking at secondary schools for next year. I want to go to boarding school if we can get the money. I think it would be good for me but my mom is really against the idea because she thinks someone else would be raising her kid. She already let my sister go to boarding school and I just want the same opportunities. How do I convince her that it would be the best school for me?

A: Remind her what a positive experience it was for your sister, how much she grew and matured at boarding school. http://www.boardingschoolreview.com

Q: Why do parents send their troubled kids to boarding school?
I probably would of dropped out of high school if I had not be forced to go to a boarding school. Regardless, why do parents send their troubled kids to boarding school? About 85% of the students at the boarding school I was attending were incredibly misguided, troubled and wealthy. The average kid at the school probably was failing most of his subjects. The boarding school did not seem to stop most of the kids from being criminals and failures. When most of the kids leave they will be the same or worse. I think most parents send their troubled kids to boarding schools because they are wealthy and do not want to help their own kid.

A: Broadly speaking, there are 2 different kinds of boarding schools in the US -- therapeutic schools and college preparatory schools. You can read about them here: http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/typesofboardingschools.php . Jr. prep schools is a very small category. The kind of boarding school you are referring to above sounds like a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens. I would just like to clarify that because some of the other responses seem to be mixing up the two very different classifications. To be honest, I know very little about therapeutic boarding schools. I imagine that parents send their children there in the hopes that they will change for the better. These schools are very expensive, and I imagine that to stay in business they must be able to prove some successful results. Perhaps the school you went to is not very successful and won't stay in business very long. Perhaps their success rate is better than 15%, but the kids you know have not been successful so it seems like they must have a low success rate. I hope that you are able to turn your life around. At least you have a high school degree now, and I hope that you will continue in your education. Good luck!

Q: What is the most FUN boarding school in the United States?
What is the most fun and best boarding school in the United States? Where is it located?

A: Depends on what you want in a school. http://www.schools.com/directory/adv_search/adv_search.cfm

Q: How common is it for military brats to go to boarding school?
at what age do they tend to go? do they go to a school in their home country or the country where their family is (like an international school)? are there special boarding schools for military children? and why are they sent to boarding school? sorry for all the questions, thanks so much for answering xxx "Military personnel could not afford to send their children to boarding school" Don't they get free school fees or something? because i know loads of military kids at private schools.

A: I lived overseas for 8 years in DODDS schools, which is for American kids from military parents stationed overseas. . No one I ever met ever or heard of over there was sent to a boarding school... and when we lived in the states I attended normal public schools as would any other child. In London we had London Central High School - which had dorms. Kids were sent to live and attend high school there if thier parent was stationed too far away from the school. It was the last overseas military school that did dorming, but it closed down 1-2 years ago.

Q: What is it really like at a boarding school?
I am writing a story about a group of girls who go and stay at a boarding school. What is it really like at a boarding school? Can you explain a typical day at boarding school? Is there alot of drama, cliques, or other problems?

A: A Day In Middle School The days at school were very busy, from the time that I woke up, to the time that I went to bed, I was constantly on the move, in the classroom and in the dorm at night. My alarm clock would wake me up at 6:00 a.m. I would get out of bed, put on the clothes that I had laid out the night before on my bench, brush my hair then make my bed. By 6:30, I am downstairs in the living room, watching some television, waiting for the dorm parent to say that it is time to leave for breakfast. At 6:45, she tells us that it is time to leave for the dining room. We all walk to breakfast together. The dinning room is at the other end of the school, across the hall from the elementary school dorms. When we arrive at the dinning room, we stand around in the hall waiting for them to let us in to eat breakfast. At 7:00, they let us in the dining room, my dorm walks to our assigned dorm table. For breakfast there is a variety of cereals to choose from, juice, toast, bacon or sausage depending on what the menu said. When you were finished eating, you had to sit at the table until everyone was through with their food. When everyone was through eating, the dorm parent said it was time to leave the dining room. We all walked back to the dorm together. By 7:30, we were back in the dorm getting ready for school. I went to my bedroom to get my tooth brush and tooth paste. When I got to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open sink to brush my teeth. After I brushed my teeth I went back to my bedroom to get my books for school. Then I went downstairs to watch some television in the living room, until the dorm parent dismissed us to school for the day. At 7:55 we leave for school, school starts at 8:00, as we leave the dorm, I say good bye to my dorm parent and friends. At my school you only have five minutes between classes, you practically have to sprint to the next class. The first 20 minutes of the day is spent in homeroom. My homeroom is at the other end of the school, in the elementary school. Mrs. Romono was my homeroom teacher. She monitors the progress in our other classes and helps us if we did not understand an assignment. Mr. Becker was my Social Studies teacher, his classroom was on the third floor in the high school. In Social Studies we learned about all the states and world geography. Mrs. Vorice was my Gym teacher, the gym was at the other end of the school. My class rotated between four weeks of gym and four weeks of Health class. In Gym we learned volley ball, roller skating as a group, interpretive dance, we ran track and field down by the cub scout house and gymnastics. In Health we learned about the circulatory system and the brain. Mrs. Romono was also my Science teacher. In class we studied weights, grams, kilograms and liters. We also studied measurements, millimeters, centimeters and yards. Mrs. Hughes was my Math teacher, the Math classroom was right above the Science classroom, in the elementary school. Math was my hardest subject, all the numbers got turned around in my head, I was in the seventh grade, with the Math skills of a fifth grader. Lunch was at 11:00, I was glad, that lunch was after Math, so that I got a break after a hard class. You were allowed to sit wherever you wanted to during lunch, my friends and I sat at a table towards the front of the dining room. As we ate our lunch, we would make plans for after school and talk about our morning classes. The food at school was good usually. The school made great lasagna, pizza and turkey sandwiches. After lunch, the teachers told us we could go talk to our friends in the boys quad courtyard. This was really boring, just standing around talking with nothing else to do for fun. The bell rang, telling us that it was time to go back to school. English was the first class after lunch. The English classroom was right next to my Math classroom, in the elementary school. Mrs. Harper was the English teacher, we read and did reports on the Mark Twain books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. In the fifth grade you are given the choice to study either piano or band. The piano room was at the other end of the school, on the second floor above the gym. Mrs. Francisco was the piano teacher. I played Jingle Bells at the Christmas concert and Swan Lake at the spring concert. The choir room was above the piano room on the third floor. Mrs. Olmsted was the music teacher, we spent most of the year learning songs to sing at the Christmas, Spring and graduation concerts. I am not a very good singer, I am tone deaf. The last bell of the school day rang at 3:15, I said bye to the teacher, then returned to my dorm. When I returned to my dorm, I checked in with the dorm parent, went upstairs to my bedroom to put away my school books. I went back downstairs to tell my dorm parent that I was leaving for practice. In the fall, I had track practice, in the winter, I had cheer leading practice after school. The gym was right down the hall from my dorm, I went to the gym for track practice. At the gym attendance was taken then we paired up to jog down to the track and field area. I was a very slow runner, I usually fell behind the other runners and went at my own pace. When we arrived at the track, the team manager lead us in warm up stretches then the entire team ran a mile. When you were through running the mile, the coaches divided us up in to groups to work on our individual events. My events were the 440 race, the 60 yard dash and the standing long jump. The 440, is where you have to run up the straight track six times in a row. The 60 yard dash, is where you sprint down the straight track, to the finish line. The standing long jump, is when you jump into a pile of sand, the judges measure how far you have jumped. At the end of practice the team managers lead us in cool down stretches, then we jog up the hill to dinner. Dinner is at 5:00 The track team walks to our team table to eat dinner together. When I was finished eating, I went back to my dorm table, to wait for my dorm, to leave the dinning room. We all walked back to the dorm together. If the whether was nice, the dorm parent would let us walk outside, to go back to the dorm. By 5:30, we were back in the dorm getting ready for study hall. I went to my bedroom to get my tooth brush and tooth paste. When I got to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open sink to brush my teeth. After I brushed my teeth, I went down stairs to check the list to see what my dorm job was for the week. A dorm job is a house keeping type job that you do every night for a week. Dorm jobs include: emptying the bathroom and kitchen trash, wiping down the study area tables, vacuuming the living room carpet, sweeping and moping the kitchen floor. After my dorm job was completed, I went back to my bedroom, to get my school books for study hall. Study hall was for an hour and started at 6:00. If you made the A or B honor roll, you were awarded the privilege of studying independently, upstairs in your bedroom, otherwise you had to study in the downstairs study area. If you had a D or F on your report card, you went to another dorm for a two hour study hall, the teachers there helped you get caught up on your school work. When you finished your homework you went to watch the news in the living room for the rest of the hour. After study hall was over, I went upstairs, to take my school books back to my bedroom. Recreation time starts at 7:00, when I came back downstairs it was time to leave for recreation time. I told my dorm parent which activity I would be doing that evening, then left the dorm. The recreation staff put out a list that listed what activities we would be doing each evening after study hall. Some of the activities we participated in were: swim in the school pool, bowl in the school bowling alley, roller skate in the school roller rink, play board games, win candy if you won the game, watch a movie in the auditorium and some days we chose our own activity in the gym. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, you could go to the student center, to buy candy, play pool or video games and listen to music on the juke box. At 9:00, I had to be back at the dorm, to start getting ready for bed. I checked in with my dorm parent, went to my bedroom to get undressed and take my shampoo and towel to the bathroom. When I went to the bathroom, I talked to my friends while I waited in line for an open shower. After my shower, I went back to my bedroom to get dressed, put away my shampoo and towel. As my roommate was coming back from the shower, I grabbed a book from my closet, to read until lights out. As I was reading, I listened to my roommate getting ready for bed. At 9:30 pm, it was time to turn the bedroom light off. I said good night to my roommate, closed my eyes and went to sleep. As I went to sleep, I felt comforted by the routine of school life. http://inblindschool.blogspot.com/

Q: What is a good and Affordable Boarding school in England?
I want to go to Boarding School in England, but I have to keep the price under $20 000 a year. I already found a few schools I like, one being Barnard Castle School, but I would like some more to consider. So could you please tell me of any good affordable schools, and also tell me if Barnard Castle School is any good! Please and Thank you!

A: Information is below.

Q: What are some good reasons for going to boarding school?
I am going to a boarding school and I need to make a list of good reasons for going. Does anyone know of a good reasons for going to boarding school?

A: You learn responsibility, you gain a sense of Independence and you make lifelong friends. Boarding school sounds like a lot of fun!

Q: How do I stand out to a boarding school admissions officer?
I'm currently an eight grader living overseas. Last year I visited Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and thought the campus was amazing, and even met a member of the faculty and various alumni. I'm really hoping to attend this boarding school for my sophomore year. What can I do to get accepted?

A: you will have to show that you are well-behaved and will adjust in the school, and fit in with their culture. be polite, enthusiastic. reasonable grades and a liking for sports etc will help too.

Q: What are some of the negatives of sending my daughter to boarding school?
I am planning to send my daughter to a boarding school like andover or choate or deerfield next year, and i have heard many positives and negatives. I know these schools have great academic opportunities, but i wanted to know about some of the social challenges. Are people snobby? Is drug use rampent? Does money play a role in friendships? This information is truly vital and answers are greatly appreciated.

A: 1. Are people snobby? Possibly, but I've heard that boarding schools endorse diversity and friendship. Especially in schools such as Andover... I've heard that if you're heard talking bad about a fellow classmate you will be sent to the headmaster... if you do something worse, you're expelled. 2. Is drug use rampant? Just like any other school, drug use is common. This is an experimental stage and just because they are in boarding school does not mean they have no connections to drug dealers. I've heard drugs, drinking, and smoking are pretty common in boarding schools (some more than others) but you shouldn't worry too much about that affecting your child. They do have supervision and teachers who check on them (advisors). 3. Does money play a role in friendships? Yes, there are cliques based on money and popularity, but honestly what school isn't? I think sending your daughter to boarding school is a wonderful idea. I'm a sophomore and I was very close to going to boarding school (unfortunately I just did not have the money for it) and I regret never getting the chance. Andover seems wonderful. I have a few friends there who absolutely love it! (But of course there are those who do not enjoy the boarding school experience). Educationally it's great, but make sure this is what you want to do. If you send your daughter, this is basically the last moments of her childhood that you get to spend together. (They do get lengthy breaks and such, but she'll be off in boarding school, then college, then her own life.)