Chapter 9
BOARDING SCHOOLS Boarding schools are “sleep-away” schools. Your child will sleep, eat, and live at school. Boarding school students go home on the occasional weekend and have much longer vacations--about a month in December and again in March, as well as a three-month summer---to allow them to spend lots of time at home with their families. Boarding schools offer an exceptional opportunity for a young person to develop academic, artistic and athletic skills. They have no commute. They have no chores to speak of. They are able to spend their entire time developing their abilities, interests and independence. Because they live with their classmates, boarding school students develop unusually close and deep bonds that often last a lifetime.
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