<p>I was wondering if with special permission, boarding students are allowed to have a car on campus?</p>
<p>Lol. Thats a good question, but why are you concerned? :) You can't drive yet buddy? :) lol</p>
<p>I don't know about everywhere, but for Exeter only in very rare cases are boarding students allowed to have a car on campus. In the one case I know of, the deans had control of the keys and only gave them to the student only when he had to drive to his commitment. And abuse of the privilege is severe...</p>
<p>I'm sure not every school is that strict about it.</p>
<p>That is exactly the way my son's school operated. If you needed a car for a specific reason- i.e. traveling home for a family medical problem, a college visit or medical appts.- you could have the car but the dean kept the keys. You got the keys when you needed to leave with the car and you turned the keys back in when you returned. My son had his car at school his entire senior year due to medical appointments which were a great distance away from the school.</p>
<p>At my school boarding students are in no way allowed to have cars...but they dont really need them anyway since they can get taxi vouchers to go downtown and if you are friends with a day student with a car then they can take you. Seriously, I am a day student with a car, and I have boarders asking me to take them places all the time...</p>
<p>So you just aren't allowed to take them like... wherever you want? Only for emergencies?</p>
<p>What if I wanted to go to the DQ which was a few miles away and not within walking distance. Could I go? </p>
<p>I'm talking about the future, phil. Not right now.</p>
<p>Oh well. I guess a car isn't really needed at boarding school. There's cabs and day students.</p>
<p>Jonathan K.</p>
<p>Let me exlain to you the thinking at most boarding schools regarding cars and boarders...</p>
<p>Boarding schools assume a lot of liability for your actions as a student, when they take charge of you as a boarder. Allowing a 16 or 17 year old behind the wheel of a car without the parent's permission for any specific trip could make them liable for anything that happens during that trip (to DQ or otherwise).</p>
<p>Hence, the specific written permission required for things like doctors appointments. At this point, they are off the hook for the student's actions behind the wheel.</p>
<p>As for day students driving other students around, I'm quite surprised that any school would allow a boarder (whom they have responsibility for 24/7) to leave campus with another student without written permission for the specific purpose of that trip (attend church/synagogue/mosque away from campus). </p>
<p>And generally the purpose for an off campus trip by a student under control of the school had better be reasonably necessary (medical/religious/family) or a school is likely to reject it as an unnecessary risk. Plus, if you have lots of reasons to leave campus, it makes administering it for hundreds of students a pain in the keester.</p>
<p>The school where my daughter will be going this year actually will take you to doctors offices that are not in town for a nominal charge using one of their vans. And often, staff will invite students to make a DQ (or other junk food emporium) run during free time.</p>
<p>Bottom line is don't count on being in a student driven car during your boarding school time. But don't worry about getting to places. It gets done. </p>
<p>If you are really concerned about getting that Blizzard, make sure the school you select is within walking distance and the school has a policy of letting students walk to local businesses. </p>
<p>Yahoo maps actually has options to show local business near any address including restaurants. Clicking on the balloon identifies the business.</p>
<p>BTW, I do enjoy a Blizzard from time to time, so I am sympathetic.</p>
<p>haha I like Brownie Earthquakes. :)</p>
<p>With parent's permission, could we go somewhere for a while with friends? Like to a mall or something? What if we wanted to go to Boston or New York for a day or something?</p>
<p>That's very easily done, you don't even need parent permission. Well, maybe for New York...</p>
<p>You simply need a day excuse from your house counselor, or an overnight slip from your cluster dean, depending on what exactly you want to do. Malls and movie theaters you can call a cab or get a day student friend/their parents to drive you. It's quite easily arranged.</p>
<p>Oh, I see.</p>
<p>So Andover lets boarding students use cars?</p>
<p>No, you take the train to Boston and either fly/bus/train to NYC. Malls, the Loop, movies, etc are reached by cab, day student w/licence, or a day student/local boarder's parents. You don't really need a car, but day students become a heck of a lot more popular once they get their licence.</p>
<p>Would they let a few kids fly to New York for the weekend? (with their parent's permission)</p>
<p>Most definitely. Especially on long weekends, New York is a pretty popular destination.</p>
<p>Wow. I'm sooo looking forward to boarding school. lol.</p>
<p>The parents sign a permission slip before enrollment choosing a certain level of "permission". The parent might say NO CARS at all, or say that student-driven cars are OK. Before an overnight to NY or to a friend's home, the parent has to email the dorm parent and give permission.</p>
<p>At my old school (feels weird to say that now), only senior boarders and junior prefects are allowed to have cars on campus.</p>