Please lmk of any boarding school scandals your school has had and make sure to include the name of the school!! Looking into schools and want to see what some bad things happening at each school are! Also really fun to read
If you’re looking for something “fun to read”, Google the schools yourself.
If you’d like parent or student perspectives on a particular incident that occurred at a particular school, ask away.
I’m looking at boarding school very broadly right now and would like to get an idea or a sense of the community. I know that some have a huge history of racism and sexual assault while others have very minor incidents. I’m just trying to gather info while doing research for these school.
@hopefulswimmer58 I am offering just one parent’s perspective that I hope you find helpful and supportive. I know you probably mean well, but from where I sit, the original post comes across as gossipy and dismissive and yucky. There is no part of me that takes any pleasure (“fun reading”) in learning about BS experiences gone very wrong. While I absolutely understand the desire to research a school’s history in order to evaluate whether a school’s culture (both in terms of students and administration response) would be a good fit, the spirit behind this post doesn’t pass my gut check. Feel free to google away, but I would frankly be surprised if you get a lot of folks jumping in on this post to share juicy stories for the sake of feeding someone’s “fun.” That said, many have shared their honest experiences, and have talked about many stories that would be perhaps considered “juicy” to some, but the take and tone is quite different.
You are not going to get a sense of community by rehashing a scandal that probably doesn’t reflect the community you seek to learn more about.
Closing thread.