<p>OK, so I'm sure a million people have asked about boarding school/partying, but I still haven't been able to really find a clear answer.
Are there actually legit "parties" often? You know what I mean by legit if you've ever been to a real party. Can you describe what they're like?
I've gone to public school for a while so I've been to a lot of parties, and I know what a good party is and what isn't. Are the parties at boarding school good? Where are they usually held?</p>
<p>No. What parties there are are off-campus. You could never get away with a legit party [not here, anyway]. Mostly people drink or do whatever they want to do in small groups in out-of-the-way places [or covertly in their rooms] if they’re on campus.</p>
<p>Weed is more prominent at boarding schools than drinking, mostly because it is easier to get away with. There aren’t really “raging parties” during school, although during long weekends and such they do exist.</p>
<p>Parties are a distant dream at my school. We barely even have snow days.</p>
<p>Most activities at most parties (drinking, smoking, stuff getting broken, whatever) that you’d see on the weekend at someone’s house at home are expulsion offenses at boarding school. So, when you walk onto campus, put partying out of your mind. Save it for vacations. I know that the brains of adolescent kids aren’t fully developed in the area of risk assessment, so remember this post if you feel yourself getting stupid: no drinking or smoking (or being around it) is worth being expelled, losing your parents 40k of tuition that year, and pretty much blowing your college chances.</p>
<p>Honestly, that doesn’t exist much here. Public school parties are a thing of the past. There are “parties” here, but you seriously can’t do much more than be loud and dance. Big or “legit” parties, never happen on campus. Just doesn’t happen.</p>
<p>If you attend a boarding school you can be expelled for partying (and getting caught) during your VACATIONS at home or any other infraction while off campus. Don’t be stupid!</p>
<p>Sure there are parties, but like everyone else said they are off campus. In terms of drugs, if used/done on campus it is usually in small groups on weekends late into the night. Something very prominent at HADES is dipping. Like others said, you are held accountable no matter where you are. Last week there was a Deerfield party in NY, and DA found out about it and punished. I’d rather not give more details</p>
<p>My son went to one party while he was a bs student. It was off campus at a day student’s house…after graduation. The only “legit” party his entire time there. And he only recently told me about it (he is 25 now). It is too easy to get caught and it is true what others have said. My son had a friend who got in trouble for drinking while at home the summer before her senior year. She was expelled. Her only offense ever and she was an excellent student and star athlete.</p>
<p>To add to the above, you can get expelled for a lot less than partying. At my son’s school (and I am sure at most preps) there is a long list of “major school rules” which include, but are not limited to, attendance, respect for self and others, safety rules, etc. At my son’s school, two infractions and you are out. A close friend of his was just released for lighting a candle in his room.</p>
<p>“Released” reminds me of the book, “The Giver.” <em>shudders</em></p>
<p>I think most schools will expel a student for an open flame in a dorm. No one wants a fire in a dorm. It sounds silly, unless you think about how many people live in a dorm. The dorms are frequently lovely, older structures. Many of them are built of wood. Aged, dry wood. Newer dorms are built to modern standards, but even triggering a sprinkler system would cause enormous damage.</p>
<p>^Same here. Lighting a flame in a dorm or the woods is automatic expulsion. Incidentally, first offenses regarding drinking or pot are not [as long as there wasn’t an open flame], simply because these don’t greatly affect the safety of the whole community. But yes, alcohol and drugs are serious matters, and most schools will have severe consequences for your first offense.</p>
<p>Question: how were all of these off-campus incidents found out about? The only one i can think of here is something i heard happened a couple years ago where there was this huge off-campus senior party where the cops were called. that’s the only reason the school found out about it.</p>
<p>But in general, it’s very difficult to get punished for something off-campus simply because even if you’re caught by someone’s parents, it’s not like they’re going to turn their child [and by extension you] into the school…</p>
<p>Generally speaking, such parties doesn’t exist in a boarding school. They are merely off campus wherein people mostly drink or do whatever they want to do. You can see activities like drinking, smoking, dancing to loud music which ends up on stuff getting broken. Such ways are offensive at a [boarding</a> school](<a href=“teen-boarding-school.com - This website is for sale! - teen boarding school Resources and Information.”>http://www.teen-boarding-school.com/). So when you go to a boarding school, get your mind out of partying rather save it for vacations. Or you might end up being expelled.</p>
<p>Izzy…the girl I am referring to was arrested and her name was published in the paper. We are fairly close to the school, so someone saw it.</p>
<p>I go to Taft and parties are generally avoided but at the first dance a guy broke his leg and someone had to be taken away by the ambulance, and thats with teacher supervision. Pretty much every knows that you stay away from the fields because thats generally where people hook up. Before the second dance the school had an assembly to remind people shirts and pants were required and loincloths and bras dont count. Off campus parties are almost non-existant bc the town is tiny and everyone knows everything. Drugs and alcohol go around a lot though, one kid in my grade has a rep for being stoned24/7 and when teased about it he screamed “I’ve only done it twice!” angrily and walked off.</p>
<p>This thread is 4 years old!! Use old threads for research, but do not revive them needlessly. Closing.</p>