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To: jlallen who wrote (14691)	4/25/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) of 20981

Jlallen, it is really hard for me to imagine sending children away to boarding schools just to make sure they get into the best colleges. You would essentially be sacrificing proper child development--the child's emotional well being--for the purely intellectual. But it is only really healthy children who can fully benefit from an excellent education, as Jim Huntsberry was pointing out to you. The teenage years are very difficult ones emotionally for children, and while the children do not always act like they do not need their parents, that kind of gradual breaking away and becoming independent is really something they need to be able to accomplish with their parents very close by. It seems to me that you would be taking what sounds like a very close family and breaking it apart. Not only would your oldest child lose a lot of family closeness, but the younger siblings would also go through a rough adjustment and an actual grief period. Have you thought of providing tutors in subjects you don't think are covered adequately by your local public schools? Have you actually visited the high school, and determined what it offers in the way of honors and advanced placement classes? They will have a list of all the colleges that children have attended after going there. Have you looked at it? What about sending your older children to special interest/computer/academic enrichment camps during the summers? I think there are a lot of things you could do to ensure their academic success without choosing boarding school. Boarding schools are full of children from upscale but very dysfunctional homes. They are rife with drugs and sex of every kind. It is hard for me to imagine you essentially turning your children over to the supervision of school officials who will do a much less thorough job of rearing your children with your values than you would do yourself.

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