Short, honest stories and guides about what boarding school offers, who it suits, and the myths worth dropping.
No. College-prep boarding schools admit students the way selective private schools do. Programs for teenagers in crisis are a separate kind of care, and in Arizona many are licensed health facilities.
Some homesickness is normal. Most young people away from home miss it, usually mildly. Here is what helps students and parents, and the signs that it has become something more.
A dorm parent is an adult who lives with or beside the students in a boarding residence and looks after them outside class. Here is what the job covers, how schools should screen them, and what to ask.
Five-day boarding means your teenager lives at school on weeknights and comes home for weekends. It suits families within a weekend drive who want boarding's routine without giving up weekends together.
Most parents never seriously consider boarding school, often because of what they think it is. Modern boarding schools are mostly small college-preparatory schools where teenagers live with teachers who also coach them and run the dorms. For the right student that means more adults who know them, more structure, and practice at independence while help is close by. This site tells those stories, names the trade-offs, and sources its facts. Who writes it, and why.