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How Involved are Parents at Boarding Schools?
posted by Allison "AJ" Miller on Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 08:00 AM
tags: Co-Ed Schools, College Prep Schools, Learning Differences , Summer Boarding

Boarding School StudentsParents of students at private schools, public schools or day schools typically are more involved in daily school life than parents at boarding schools For the most part, this is a function of geographic proximity – boarding schools are often farther away than the local public high school or even the day school a few miles away. Significant involvement in a boarding school that is hours away is logistically more difficult for most parents.
 
That is not to say that parents do not support the boarding school their child attends – far from it. But parents support the school more from a distance.

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