<p>parlabane-
what direct experience do you have with BS? your tone is very derogatory and super-generalized…
the MOST spoiled kids I know do NOT go to BS!</p>
<p>as to laundry- my bet is that most teens do N O T do their own laundry. At Home.
My own D has to wash all her own ballet clothes by hand and sew her own ballet slippers, so I have no horse in this race. Just saying…</p>
<p>ditto@mom</p>
<p>my d is also a dancer, thus she has always hand washed her personal clothes including underwear and socks.</p>
<p>If I don’t have a horse, I won’t get in the race. :D</p>
<p>has anyone had any good or bad experiences with All Prep Laundry in Princeton, NJ? I am trying to find reviews online before I buy the service, but I can’t find any.</p>
<p>By the way All Prep Laundry services Lawrenceville, Peddie, Hun, Pennington, and Blair. So if anyone goes to those schools, how is the laundry service?</p>
<p>I’m definitely not getting the laundry service. Its $1000 annually, I agree with Invent xD</p>
<p>Performersmom - I went to boarding school with my two brothers. My father went to boarding school. I have two boarding school children who were graduated in the past five years and I have another one going this Fall.</p>
<p>I said that ANY child at a top boarding school is spoiled by the multitude of academic and extracurricular options, in addition to an incredibly high quality faculty and peer group. Also, the campus facilities and the food are truly exceptional. It is in this context that these children are spoiled, as is yours, by such bounty.</p>
<p>P- why use such a derogatory word, then?
Why not “enriched by opportunities” or “fortunate to have so many resources”?
“Spoiled” implies that their character is deficient.</p>
<p>p.s. and let us not forget that attending BS often involves additional CHALLENGES (along with these opportunities), as well: independence, decision-making, time-management, resource-management, responsibility to a community, self-control and deferred gratification…
I happen to think BS can be a great character builder (even if the student does not do his or her own laundry LOL)!!</p>
<p>Maybe there is a better word, PM. Still, “spoiled” sums it up pretty neatly and in only one word. But now that you have me thinking about the word itself, the fact that such academic and extracurricular bounty is heaped on such a tiny number of children might, in fact, spoil some of them in the derogatory sense. Four years on a bucolic campus with first class everything every day is a pretty distorted experience. The FA kids help ratchet down this sense of entitlement, but you’ll always find another percentage of kids for whom the boarding school experience only confirms what they already know, that the world revolves around them. It’s for these kids especially that taking care of some of the menial chores like laundry is a tiny, practical reminder of the rest of the world.</p>
<p>I agree with you that BS is a great character builder and that lots of challenges must be overcome to have success.</p>
<p>I do plenty of my own laundry at home. I have no problem with doing laundry, in fact I actually kind of like doing it. The thing is, my parents spent good money on dress code clothes and believe it would be a waste for them to never get ironed or treated properly (as in not being dry cleaned as they should be). I have no other way to get them dry cleaned and you can’t just buy a dry cleaning package. I know E’n’r costs a lot, and we certainly don’t get it lightly but in the long run we feel it’s the better option. Everyone else is welcome to have different opinions for their own family but it irks me to be called spoiled purely because I get laundry service. It’s such a sweeping generalization. It’s not like I get it because I can’t be bothered to get off my ass and do my laundry. Are there kids who get laundry who are spoiled? Of course, as there are spoiled kids who do there own. I do get the argument that all BS kids are spoilt because of their opportunities and agree (although I did work very hard to get where I am) but to use something like laundry service to call all kids ‘spoiled’ as a result seems extreme and overly generalized.</p>
<p>Incendio - I favor dry cleaning of nice clothes, which I noted in my comments. I’m talking about a kid who needs someone to wash his socks, underwear, dirty t-shirts, blue jeans etc. Paying someone to do this seems, well, over the top. But, as you rightly point out, each to his own.</p>
<p>Actually, I don’t know too many spoiled kids who do their own laundry, although I’m sure you can find them if you look hard. However, I do know plenty of spoiled kids who send out their stuff for wash & fold.</p>
<p>but how does one get dry cleaning in a remote boarding school without E’n’R (you can’t just get a dry cleaning package) and my parents live too far away to get stuff dry cleaned. If you know of a way, I’d genuinely love to know.</p>
<p>You can buy do it yourself dry cleaning kits from the grocery store. All you need is a dryer :)</p>