@futurebird

idk, "boarding school" was another name given to the death camps Indigenous children were sent to by the thousands. "residential school" is a more common name for the death camps in canada.

@burnitdown

I was thinking of the kind that parents want to send their kids to and pay for. Not some scheme by the state that is two thirds of the way to child prison.

@futurebird

Did you? What prompts the question?

@futurebird I definitely didn't want to live with my parents, and to that sole respect, a boarding school seemed like it might be the lesser of the evils. But I was familiar with them only through fiction, and had no idea how that related to real life. But it was also clear that boarding schools were only an option for wealthy families, not like mine.

@anarchademic

I didn't, and always wanted to so badly. But my parents hated the idea.

I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I thought. But I mostly assumed it'd be easier to sneak staying up late reading at such a school. And maybe it'd be haunted like in some of the books I read.

@futurebird Did you know in Denmark almost everyone spends 10th grade at boarding school?

@GreenSkyOverMe

I didn't know that. Do people get to live in a different part of the country or something?

We often send year 11 student away to other schools for a year.

@futurebird i went to a boarding school (solebury) and while the academics and staff was fine TO ME, there was later a huge thing about how teachers were sexually abusing children. and also when i got bullied by folks whose parents were deeply and financially involved with the school, things got /dark/ for me.

@futurebird The country is so tiny it wouldn’t really matter … I think they don’t choose one far away usually, but I‘m nit certain.

Who is “we” in your context? Are the schools in other states in the US? That’s so interesting, I never heard of that, not even when I spent a high school year in the US!

@hi_cial

That's horrible!

@GreenSkyOverMe

Just speaking about the somewhat atypical NYC school where I work. It's a school with high academic requirements and charming neurotic children. (I mean that, they are charming, but also too focused on grades sometimes.)