<p>Some of them are better than top 5 BS. Moreover, when smart kids go to one place, their chance to top universities decreases for obvious reason.</p>
<p>You need to find a better place to post. This forum is to discuss boarding schools, pro and con, but not meant to be a place for you to just bash the concept without data. It’s a running theme on all of your posts. As of today - you’ve only been here 17 times and always to tell people “not” to apply.</p>
<p>But you’ve ignored other posters asking what your experience is and where you get your data/impressions. Time to come clean.</p>
<p>Where can you find I told people not to apply? everybody needs a balanced thinking. The data I posted here can be verified by any current enrolling student from BS. Be rational and do not go crazy about BS.</p>
<p>I’m so glad you reminded me to check. I just did, and it still was not an appealing option for my children.</p>
<p>FHF’s posts are somewhat amusing to me. I feel like it is a juvenile/feeble attempt at getting less kids to apply to schools to better their childs chances. </p>
<p>Is your child applying to boarding school? Why not put this energy into finding the perfect public school for yourself/ your child?</p>
<p>Everyone has to be their OWN childs advocate and help guide them to their own path that works for their family.</p>
<p>Scare tactics are not likely to work…</p>
<p>HailuMu,</p>
<p>Do you think people here are so stupid to listen to me? Do you think I am so stupid to think I can stop others’ applying?</p>
<p>I have no idea of your level of intelligence but my post clearly implies no one will listen to you.</p>
<p>@HailuMu, Well said. Ditto,</p>
<p>I thought the same thing. Kind of sad if you ask me.</p>
<p>Had there been a great public, or even private day school for my child within a reasonable drive (and we are used to long drives in my neck of the woods), I would not be on this forum, and my child would not be in boarding school. </p>
<p>@FHF I don’t know if you are a student or a parent, but if you don’t want to be considered a ■■■■■ (and at this point it would be a stretch not to consider you one), I recommend rethinking why you are bothering to post on these boards.</p>
<p>HailuMu,</p>
<p>To be honest, your intelligence is far from the average. No offense, just tell from your replies to this post.</p>
<p>FHF, still amusing and quite juvenile… but I will not respond again since your intent seems to be to antagonize. Not that its working. I just think its a waste of time.</p>
<p>@FlyHighFly,</p>
<p>I would LOVE my S to go to a great public school, but it’s too far for him to swim</p>
<p>Hello, all! I’ve very much receded from the Prep School forum over the past year. However, I noticed this thread and felt a need to give my two cents. </p>
<p>Although FHF has a fairly esoteric view considering his audience (and I would agree that this probably isn’t the right crowd to express your particular sentiments), I think his beliefs should still be evaluated and considered. His sentiments could actually be helpful for someone considering boarding school. </p>
<p>Too often, when I was active on the forum, pretentious adults would be incredibly condescending towards newer/younger posters. The responses to this thread are actually quite ridiculous and juvenile.</p>
<p>@starkali,
This is not FHF’s first thread on this topic. BTW, welcome back :-)</p>
<p>Starkali, with all due respect, FHF is throwing out statements that purport to express fact when they merely express opinion, and usually end up simply insulting whoever responded to his or her post. </p>
<p>I refer to the OP, “…Moreover, when smart kids go to one place, their chance to top universities decreases for obvious reason.”</p>
<p>Which rather begs the question, don’t you think?</p>
<p>This concept of “reduced chances to TOP universities”, which has been posited by far more articulate posters than FHF, implies that there are 3 or 4 post-secondary institutions in the ENTIRE country that ALL high-school kids (day, boarding, public, private) want to attend and will in fact apply to. It’s specious at best, and bad trolling at worst, especially since the OP is not backed by anything resembling a fact.</p>
<p>I’ve seen lots of your posts, and you usually don’t jump to conclusions as you’ve seemed to do on this particular thread. But the parents whose responses you are calling "ridiculous and juvenile are generally folks who DO NOT resort to such behavior on these boards.</p>
<p>Which is why FHF must be in ■■■■■ heaven right now.</p>
<p>I agree entirely with starkali’s post. Perhaps FHF’s posts is not useful to those who post here regularly, but many silent readers visit this public forum, and his view might be helpful for someone thinking about public vs. private high school. It doesn’t matter whether he is more or less articulate than others who have posted on this topic, nor does it matter that he has made similar posts before. There is a lot of repetition on this board on many other topics, as well, but that’s just fine, because it gives new people the chance to enter into current discussion if they want. Whether or not he backs his opinion with facts is up to him. Readers can to do their own research and draw their own conclusions. If you are not interested in FHF’s posts, you are free to simply pass on by.</p>
<p>Honorary mom, you make good points about the board in general, but FHF has suddenly appeared and begun posting random threads bashing boarding school or implying that everyone on the boards should really look at public school. </p>
<p>Looking at who’s responded so negatively, I’d say that most of us have based our replies to this thread on the attitude we’ve read in these and FHF’s posts on other threads. When someone disagrees with him (or her), it is FHF who starts the name calling. From what I’ve read so far, this poster is making random statements that seem calculated to inflame, and is insulting other posters’ intelligence without provocation (I refer to post #10) and in the worst possible way (“No offense, but you’re an idiot”, is how I read it—“no offense,”—seriously???).</p>
<p>I agree that anyone has a right to post opinions. And stating opinions as facts? Sure, they have a “right”—it’s a free country, as they say. We’ll just leave that whole knowledge/wisdom thing for another thread. As for being “not interested,” I think folks ARE “interested,” in that, for whatever reason, FHF is adept at getting people’s hackles up… people who are generally rational responders on these boards, which is saying something.</p>
<p>Sadly, the posts are sparking acrimony, rather than discourse.</p>
<p>Or maybe it’s just that THIS week, everyone is rising to the bait. Who knows? Perhaps it’s because the world is about to end.</p>
<p>honoraryamom - I don’t find the FHF’s comments helpful whatsoever because it just seems so repetitive. If you keep reading it seems like the only reason s/he started the thread was to argue with people rather than have a real conversation (whether he is articulate or not is not the actual problem). And even if he wasn’t, this topic has been over-talked about here on the forums (there are actually a ton up at the moment). New people can always look at what others have posted and enter those discussions as well. I’m not sure how having another one open changes anything.</p>
<p>@Girlgeekmom, I wouldn’t say that my analysis was merely based upon “assumptions.” Quite a few of the parents on this forum (even those who have posted on this particular thread) have a history of spewing snarky comments, anytime an esoteric poster attempts to challenge the collective ideology. </p>
<p>Intellectual discourse and opposing views should be encourage on an open forum. “Silent readers” and prospective students should be exposed to a more vast spectrum of views regarding boarding school, in order to provide a holistic depiction of the public vs. private debate.</p>
<p>Starkali, I absolutely agree that silent readers and prospective students (and their parents) should be, as you say, “exposed to a more vast spectrum of views regarding boarding school,” — and well said, too.</p>
<p>What I don’t agree with is the presumption that the OP was trying to be helpful or spark measured debate. There are lots of threads that discuss the pros and cons of public vs boarding school, some measured, some, as you rightly note, fairly snarky. </p>
<p>I’m curious to know what about any of FHF’s comments constitute, in your opinion, openings for “intellectual discourse” rather than, because of their tone, knee-jerk negative reactions. Because I’m with Dreamer on this one. I think FHF is being argumentative to no purpose.</p>
<p>And yet, we all keep getting drawn in. </p>
<p>It MUST be a full moon. The boards seem unusually replete with sniffy comments this week. And it’s only Wednesday.</p>