I’m not that fucking old grandad.
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Big difference in being sent to a boarding school and wanting to go to a boarding school I would have thought.
EDIT: Sorry Ritchie, that was meant to be a general response not a reply to you.
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Old enough to have a very different experience.
Good point, I didn’t want to go and my brother had no choice.
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Sorry, I’ve pissed on Ritchies parade here but Boarding school scares me.
That’s the feedback I got from the parent I know with a daughter there. Sounds a great school
I don’t disagree with the big L, wouldn’t have been my choice. In our case as i guess with many others it was driven by the child rather than the parents. When it was mooted I didn’t for a moment think our daughter would work her socks off for 18 months to put herself in a position to be offered a place but she did.
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It can happen. Kids (people, for that matter) are different.
My local authority was prepared to send me to boarding school at age 11 (my mum’s financial situation was tough, and I was bright, and there was a fund …). We got as far as visiting the place. The bottom line though was that she would have had to have argued that my new step-dad and I didn’t get on and that this would hold me back. Which wasn’t true. She talked to my local grammar school head and he convinced her that they would do a good job, and that’s how it ended up. Who knows what might have happened if she’d made the other choice ?
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I went to a posh school too. It didn’t work out. At All. However, this place is on another level entirely, it’s a different age and Ava is way brighter than I could ever hope to be.
Sending our children to boarding school was never our plan, but Ava had the ambition and made it happen. How could we ever stop that?
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You would be surprised at how many adults have trouble adjusting to living and working in residential Universities that take them away from home. I see PG students in their early to mid-20’s struggling to adjust successfully to their new environments. The difference is that there is at least some attempt to provide support these days compared to 30-odd years ago.
I’m sure that the welfare standards and safeguarding nowadays in Boarding Schools are light years ahead of where it was in the 70’s and 80’s. You could still legally cane kids when I went to school. Times change thank heavens.
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Good luck to her and you. I don’t have kids so I’ve not had to provide in that way.
If it’s what she wants (and we know that to be the case) then congrats and I hope it’s everything she (and you) expects and more.
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I can’t disagree with a word of that. Such a degree of agreement and consensus is very unsettling.
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All levels of Rong ™️
Not at all, debate is good. 
Like I said, I was a day boy at a boarding school and I hated it. I cant let my experiences get in the way of Ava’s though, that would be appalling.
Ooh lookit! It’s me growing up! 
My place 13-18 still had fagging, albeit not personal fagging. Last gasp of the 19th century.
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Twice in minutes. Feck off out of it Terry or it’ll be the death of us.
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Leave @Jim’s jokes out of it Guy.
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Run. RUN AWAY !!!
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Every child is different. This is good.
tell me about it…
and when I talk to parents who say things like, you are my backup Uni, Jemima will only go to a Russell group uni. I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to explain that happiness in the environment and with the style of teaching is way more important…
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Good luck to her. She has made the opportunity to have that choice and I wish her every success
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