<p>It's been so quiet here lately. Here is a question for all of you: What do you think about having a tv in a dorm room? Have you had any experience with this? Is it allowed at your school? Most boarding schools have a lounge with a tv, but in this case, I'm talking about one in an actual room. Comments?</p>
<p>Nope, not allowed at my school. We have a common room with a tv on each hallway. It's been good for me. I used to watch tv constantly at home, now I rarely watch it (usually just on Wednesdays for America's Next Top Model...unless I'm on duty on my hall that night and then I pretty much don't watch it at all).</p>
<p>I haven't seen a school that even allows TVs in a dorm room.</p>
<p>I remember an adcom mentioning the various reasons... Fire danger from overloading circuits, isolating students from others, etc.</p>
<p>Plus I imagine unless the kid brings a satellite dish, they won't find much on network TV that they like. LOL</p>
<p>allows their Senior Dorm Prefects to have TV's in their rooms.
Plus the Farmington girls show up on Sunday mornings to give foot massages, followed by eggs benny on the south veranda.</p>
<p>Andover Uppers and Seniors are allowed; Juniors and Lowers are not. This seems to work fine. By the time they're Uppers, they should be good enough at managing their time and aclimated with the school so that they can deal with ti.</p>
<p>Kimball-Union had their own version of the Buffalo "Heid" incident during the SuperBowl one year. It went later than the TV had "scheduled" and the next scheduled program was "Sex in the City" which was blocked by the school because of the title. Well, you can guess what happened...the time slot changed from Superbowl to Sex in the City and the common room couldn't get the game any more... :) Kind of funny now...</p>
<p>I personally think that TV's in rooms are not necessary. But if my son gets a foot massage while watching TV and eating eggs benny, well...maybe ;)</p>
<p>Laptop + some DVD boxed sets of favorite TV shows = TV with lower power consumption.</p>
<p>I wouldn't encourage the isolation that TV watching entails and I wouldn't allow a TV in a dorm room if I were a Czar of Residential Life at a boarding school. </p>
<p>From the school's perspective, a TV isn't more insidious than a laptop. But, from the student's perspective, a TV adds nothing that a laptop doesn't offer. A TV draws lots of power. It could present an electrical/fire hazard. No TVs. A laptop has some educational value. Yes to laptops.</p>
<p>Umm I know at St. Paul's you can have a monitor in your room, which is good for video games, and movies and such. However you can not actually have "tv" or cable.</p>
<p>At Andover only prefects are allowed to have TVs. A lot of people just watch the shows on their laptops from the web. Honestly, we don't have time to watch a lot of TV.</p>
<p>if my main man D'yer is serious about electrical consumption.</p>
<p>Given the poor reception in the northwest corner of CT, the tubes up there are used to watch DVD's. The lack of cable is quickly forgotten when the buses from Miss Porters pull up at 10 am and their thoughts later turn to English muffins, poached eggs, Canadien bacon and homemade hollandaise sauce. And the view of the Taconic Mountains from the south veranda is killer.</p>
<p>At Mercersburg Academy, you are allowed to have a TV set in your room, but it can't be hooked up to cable or another signal. What many students do is they use it for video game consoles like PS2, Wii or Xbox. Some people use computer monitors for that. </p>
<p>Most people like the idea that TV's are only available in common areas, because watching it won't disturb another person who is trying to work, and many people watch popular TV shows like "24", "Lost", and sports events in big groups. It's more fun that way (as long as people don't talk too much).</p>
<p>At my son's school, the only TV is in the lounge. I would personally not allow my son to have a television in his room (not at home, either). We are not big "TV" people here, so he is not used to that as an activity. I could not imagine too much time available to him to watch tv at school, anyway.</p>