<p>that's kinda what you risk when going to school with teenagers. you're in 6th grade. you shall learn.<br>
the world, even the very privileged one, is not as innocent and proper as it seems.</p>
<p>Choate and Deerfield are definitely NOT "party schools!" The kids there are kept way too busy and supervised. There is always a small group of kids who will try, and inevitably they are caught. There is some pretty wild speculation that takes place on these boards from middle schoolers who have never been students at these schools...</p>
<p>Deerfield? A party school? Are you kidding me? Choate, yes, but Deerfield?</p>
<p>Nuh uh.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that deep down they're not, including Choate, but just the impressions and speculations around here plus the whole 'drugs and alcohol are a normal part of bs' thing going on makes you think twice. I didn't/don't think they are and that's why I started posting in this thread, just look at my original post.</p>
<p>That's not an attitude. Don't tell me that you want to go to a school where there are no drugs and everyone is clean. Our attitude, here, is one of realism... You can't expect a school to not have drugs... I am not saying that it is right or wrong, but you should not have applied to BS if you "think twice" about drugs. </p>
<p>Party schools? From hearsay, Choate. From pictures (Tom I am not sure if these are the ones you were talking about), Choate. Is partying bad? Nope. Plus, if you cannot deal with this at BS, have fun dealing with Eating Clubs at Princeton.</p>
<p>In general, parents don't want their children to use drugs and alcohol. It's unhealthy, it's illegal, and it can ruin their future in any number of ways. However, if they catch their child using drugs or alcohol, most parents will not run to the police, or notify their child's school. A lecture, confiscation, grounding, maybe counseling, but they don't want to damage their child's "permanent record."</p>
<p>Many public school children have access to cell phones, cars, and money. They also have access to any number of houses without parents present, or houses inhabited by parents who will abet their child's partying. In comparison, boarding school students are subject to searches and monitoring by teachers who are not their parents. These teachers could be personally responsible, and at the very least their schools could be responsible, if they turned a blind eye to substance abuse. </p>
<p>Private schools do kick out kids, or suspend them, for drug and alcohol use. Public schools, by and large, don't, because most of the drug and alcohol use occurs off campus, or in the areas of campus out of reach of the security cameras.</p>
<p>Experimenting with drugs and alcohol is a persistent feature of adolescence. Neither public nor private schools are immune to it.</p>
<p>^Exactly. And for clarity; I, in no way, was condoning the use of drugs. Like you said, though, no school is immune to this stuff.</p>
<p>I am not applying to boarding schools. I don't even live in the US. And if I were, of course I want to go to a school where is there is no drugs and everyone is clean, isn't that what everyone wants! But yeah, I get what Periwinkle is saying and they're my thoughts too.</p>
<p>"Isn't that what everyone wants". Though I plan on staying clean, you can't evade life forever. My Dad and I were actually having an interesting conversation. If I go to a school such as Andover next year, I will be among a group of self selected intellectual (and arrogant, in a good way) pundits who are amazing at everything. When I have to get a job I will have to deal with bosses who graduated from state schools and people who are not up to such caliber.</p>
<p>PPV, remind me what grade you'll be in?</p>
<p>I skipped a grade and am in nine atm but if I go to Andover I will repeat.</p>
<p>^ are you on some kinda meds? cause they'e drugs too you know</p>
<p>principalviola - I'm surprised no one has flamed you on your state school remark. Don't knock state schools. Many very bright people attend. Even from top boarding schools. Some kids - excellent hockey players for example - will attend schools like UNH of UVT because of the hockey programs there. I know a guy who goes to Penn State because it has the best fencing team. Some folks who could go to Ivies will go to state schools for financial reasons. Many state schools have top notch programs. </p>
<p>You'll also learn in time that IQ will not always determine success in the business world.</p>
<p>The second I read through that I knew that it was wrong! I did not mean it in that way at all... As a matter of fact UWM is one of my top schools, though not #1... I meant it in the sense that people will not be dealing with only this self selected group in the business world.</p>
<p>University of Western Michigan? Just how long have you been thinking about college....Your whole life isn't gunna be school. I hope you know that.</p>
<p>I meant Cwm, as in William and Mary. And yes I know that...</p>
<p>Every school has some type of drugs/alcohol. Whether it's like my old school, with minimal drugs (some smokers, but nothing else as far as I know) and some moderate drinking at high school parites, or my new school, with rampant drugs and wild drunken parties (among 9th graders, i'm in junior high), they will be present. </p>
<p>As far as drugs go, I do think that there should be a zero tolerance policy. As far as drinking, I think it's inevitable and schools would be naive to expel a student that consumed a little alcohol at a party.</p>
<p>The point is, boarding schools generally have MUCH less substance abuse than ordinary schools.</p>
<p>Much less substance ON grounds and much more OFF.</p>
<p>definitely</p>
<p>i know that all schools have some type of drugs on campus. i just dont want to be at a campus where EVERYONE has drugs.</p>