<p>I take back the dope comment. You're a bitter dope, and a whiner.</p>
<p>well as much fun as this has been, i have work to attend to. so my final word is this: GO TO BOARDING SCHOOL. you will not regret it, it is an amazing experience that is totally worth it. <3peace.</p>
<p>looking through your posts, i see that you're not only a parent but also have a daughter. make sure she stays the hell away from the hockey and lacrosse teams (if she's decent-looking). i'm not trying to be insulting either.</p>
<p>Oh yes i bet it's Choate. lbftw. If i were you i'd be quiet now because almost everybody on this site likes the idea of BS so i'd pull an Eric Cartman. </p>
<p>"SCREW YOU GUYS. I'M GOING HOME" :0 It works</p>
<p>Hey, Inspiration, tell us about Maderia. I went there with my daughter a few years ago but in the end she decided not to apply there. Every now and then someone on this board asks about Maderia and the only thing I can tell them is that I think the internship program is great!
P.S. Ignore the troll.</p>
<p>who is this fun is fun guy exactly? i've been reading his posts and am shocked he has the audacity to accuse me of being a troll.</p>
<p>i know most of you will go through with it no matter what i say, but if i can convince one person to bail it'll have been worth it. at the very least, you can't say you weren't warned.</p>
<p>inspiration- I know someone that went to Madeira! She's a freshman there right now, and she visited my school (the one she graduated from in 8th grade, where I currently go), and said she absolutely loves Madeira! That was off topic... sorry. Regarding this topic, my parents want me to go to boarding school, and I want to go too. I think it would be a wonderful experience.</p>
<p>i see there are a lot of girls posting in this thread. if you're good-looking (be honest with yourself here), then just remember that a lot of guys will be after you and that anything (and i do mean anything) you do with a guy everybody will hear about. and again, everything you've heard about lacrosse and hockey players is probably true.</p>
<p>You're making the guys that go to BS sound like perverts. Why do you keep relating back to looks anyway.</p>
<p>the hockey and lacrosse players are dirtbags 99% of the time. trust me. every single sex scandal you've heard about at these places involves them in some way.</p>
<p>most of the guys aren't perverts, but they are 16-18 year old guys living with a bunch of 16-18 year old guys. they'll naturally want to brag about any play they get, and even if they don't the peer pressure will eventually coax it out of them.</p>
<p>and i mention looks because if you're not good looking, you won't have a problem with any of this. sad but true.</p>
<p>don't feed the animal</p>
<p>yeah, i'm making this all up. none of it could possibly be true.</p>
<p>Stop provoking him, everyone.
I'm worried that I'll read something to convince me NOT to apply. "Sex scandals" made me come close and so did "Snobby Burnouts".</p>
<p>Stop doing this to me, lbftw, and I'm sure I speak for everyone. Scram.</p>
<p>come on. surely you've heard about all the sex things. there was an entire book written about one of them.</p>
<p>i'm just offering an opposing viewpoint. it's important to consider things from all angles.</p>
<p>sarah12- thats awesome! yeah, Mad rocks, haha. you're from VA? are you from northern VA? i bet i know your school, im really familiar with the schools in that area thanks to madeira. </p>
<p>(theres a really simple way not to be a part of sex scandals...make smart choices.)</p>
<p>crickett- my D went to BS and says to this day that it was the best decision she ever made. She received an excellent education, has friends all over the world, adjusted to college in a matter of hours, and has a sense of independence that rivals most adults. She started out as daddy's little girl and suffered terrible homesickness, but soon emerged and developed a healthy social life. Yes, there are drugs and sex at BS, just like one would find at any high school, but positive opportunities abound for those who seek them out. BS offers resources at a scale not found at most colleges. Most adults are caring and responsible. My D still talks to her dorm mother regularly and she graduated 2 years ago. </p>
<p>Ignore lbftw. He's bitter about his own miserable experiences and wants to rain on your parade.</p>
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<p>is it possible she's not telling you certain things, either so you don't worry or so you don't get mad at her?</p>
<p>lbtfw. i get what your saying about the guys thing, but honestly, what guy isn't like that? I know a lot og guys and believe me the first thing they look at is not my face!!!! You can't avoided perverted jerks no matter where you go, i don't think that that is a good reason not to go. and i'm not mad at you for saying all this on this site and i don't think your a troll. i respect your opinion and am glad to be getting a different side of things. However, i think you need to consider that you are ONE person who went to ONE boarding school. you did not attend every school in the country nopr do you know every person's experience of boarding school. Almost everyone i've talked to has loved it. if they didn't then i wuldn't be applying.</p>
<p>fair enough. just remember this isn't a normal high school. you're living with these people and will be in close contact with them more or less 24/7. very different dynamic.</p>
<p>i may not have gone to every school in the country, but i don't think these places are that much different from one another. the kids applying to andover and exeter are also applying to groton, milton, choate, st. paul's etc.</p>
<p>The only thing I can say about lbftw is that he clearly isn't cut out for boarding school. And it it true that the Boarding School interview is not a "Star Chamber" where they magically find out if you are a perfect person for the situation. The fact that lbftw got past them is testament to that.</p>
<p>He chooses to focus on the problems his one data point of experience (and second hand gossip) has provided him. Yes, I agree that you are miserable and should definitely be at public - or maybe homeschooled as you seem to worry too much about the stuff (sex, drugs, etc.) that is commonly found at all schools except the one in your own kitchen.</p>
<p>And unfortunately, lbftw does not have the self-awareness to understand that he is projecting his own inadequacies in dealing with his boarding school experience on the world at large (not even a small subset of unsure kids) by telling everyone to stay away. Hey, most kids at these schools have the wherewithall to deal with it. It is a self-selecting bunch who go to these places generally (most schools weed out the going-there-because-mommy-and-daddy-can't-handle-me types). Most develop ways of coping with the issues that arise during these turbulent years. Some do not. But attributing the struggles of those (like yourself lbftw) who aren't cut out for it to the schools themselves is mistaken and based upon an unrealistic view that Boarding Schools are some magic place where kids automatically come out perfect. I think the successful ones realize that Boarding School is what they make of it. It is an opportunity to do great things or fail miserably. It is OK that you tried and failed lbftw, but to suggest that the rest of the world be timid and not reach for something more challenging is hardly a practical solution.</p>
<p>Taking your stay home approach to its logical conclusion, all kids should live at home for college at a commuter school and hole up in their parents basement until, well maybe never leave their parent's basement. </p>
<p>Point is that kids have to spread their wings. Some are ready for boarding school and others find out the hard way that they aren't. We as parents who know our children better than YOU do make a tough choice is measuring up our kids ability to handle such situations. We aren't perfect, but it would seem that we are right enough of the time because the boarding schools have been putting out a great product for a long time.</p>
<p>BTW, goaliegirl has sent more than one guy to the trainer over her years on the ice. She knows which hockey/lax players are trouble and who is OK. Athletes and everyone else have their share of issues. It is just easier for some people to pick on the more physical specimin to attribute bad behavior to.</p>
<p>And yes, what you are doing is TROLLING. If you don't know what a TROLL is, it is someone who makes predominantly negative comments about a subject without offering a positive solution to those problems. They take pleasure in the the debate with others who they don't know and can't possibly care about because the Troll doesn't take the time to understand others specific situations before spewing his negative generalizations.</p>
<p>So far lbftw, you have fit this definition of a Troll to a T.</p>