<p>I was wondering about attendance at boarding school.
Like if something happens in your family and you need to leave to go home for a week or something... do they let you?</p>
<p>Probably...
why wouldnt they?
But they would probably make sure that you make it safely to your family, get the makeup work, etcetc.
it's school, not prison ;D
but you should have a valid reason, like a death in the family or something.</p>
<p>Of course they make allowances for things like that.</p>
<p>i have another question about this
if you were to get sick at school; eg. the flu or something like that
would you get a note from the nurse to be excused from school?</p>
<p>Some of the more traditional schools, rooted in the Puritan ethic, don't believe in illness. If you tell them you have the flu, you're likely to be tied to a tree in the woods.</p>
<p>Also, braces are strictly forbidden.</p>
<p>They all have health centers where you'll go and be evaluated. They will decide if you are too sick to go to class. A couple of the schools we visited had rules on what you could and could not do if you didn't attend class because you were sick. Like - confined to your dorm, no sports. Kind of like home.</p>
<p>If you are sick with something that is contagious or needs watching, I think most schools will require you to stay in the health care center until 24 hours have passed since a fever or whatever other marker is used. For those close to home, you have the option of going home. </p>
<p>A cold would not put you in the health care center. The flu would.</p>
<p>Those are the rules at Blair, and I am guessing that they are the norm.</p>
<p>lol fun is fun, but dancelover raises a valid question.Im sire most all schools have a doctor/nurse on staff to evaluate and treat all illnesses no matter how minor or major.</p>
<p>These kids today, with their colds and rock and their roll music make me sick. Why, when I was in boarding school we had cold showers, lousy food and daily beating from the VI Form just to keep us sharp. We didn't have doctors or nurses or any of that pansy crap. Kids today need to get tougher.</p>
<p>I don't think the op was asking about how a school would handle it if she were ill; she is asking if she may leave if something happens in her family. The answer would depend on the situation and I am sure most schools would allow you to leave for a funeral or something of that nature. As a matter of fact, I know that some schools allow you to leave if you have a national competition or something of that nature.</p>
<p>I don't know fun. We had to use axes to break the ice from the pond for swimming, now they use power saws.</p>
<p>Swimming, hah! The VIth Form used to throw us in the lake with weights tied to our ankles just to test our strength and resourcefulness. Some made it, some didn't. </p>
<p>Good times...</p>
<p>gosh, this thread is hilarious. I sure hope i don't get sick! (it wouldn't be fun to be tied to a tree! lol)</p>
<p>uh, that is no problem. Real men got thrown through the small hole in the ice and then had to swim up and find the hole in water that was below 0 degrees. For the whimps, they got to do it at noon as opposed to midnight for everyone else.</p>
<p>Balderdash -- "water" can't exist at 0 degrees. </p>
<p>We used to eat bowls of gruel and some stale cheese before 6am chapel followed by a six mile forced march through the bramble patches. Those that fell behind had scalding water thrown in their faces and were beaten.</p>
<p>After morning lessons, lunch of mystery meat and more classes, sports consisted of brutal practices run by bitter old unmarried men who couldn't get over the fact that their Princeton degree had gotten them to some god-forsaken prep school in East Nowheresville. </p>
<p>Dinner was cornbread (jam on Wednesday's and Sunday's), followed by three hour study halls in your room. If you had to pee there was a coffee can in the corner.</p>
<p>I loved it...</p>
<p>fun,
Those were the days. And you do understand, swimming in minus 0 water is fun - with an ice pick.
We did not have the bramble patches, just the prickly pear and cacti. </p>
<p>Sounds like the same cooks, though. And I am sure our old nuns (with German accents who used to confuse the school with some camp where work made one free) may have been the partners to your old men.</p>
<p>These kids have it easy.</p>
<p>I like to know about students' retain rate. Some students leave BS after a couple of years even in elite schools. I like to know why and how many. Anybody knows?</p>