The story focuses on three
boarding school students who live isolated from the outside world, only to come to the harsh realization that they are not who they think they are.
Private school students were also more likely to earn an advanced degree,
with boarding school students coming in with the highest percentage of advanced degrees earned.
Initial analyses were conducted and determined no significant differences between day and
boarding school student responses on key variables, thus the data was combined.
A former New
Hampshire boarding school student says in a lawsuit the school violated her civil rights by failing to protect her from sexual assault in a «hypersexualized environment» where older students scored points for having sex with younger ones.
As a rule,
boarding school students follow a highly structured day in which classes, meals, athletics, study times, activities and free time are predetermined for them.
The study conducted by The Association of Boarding Schools found that 54 %
boarding school students report being highly satisfied with their academic experience, as compared to 42 % of students who attend private day schools and 40 % of students who attend public schools.
Because boarding school students live in dorms on campus, instead of at home with their families, they learn what it's like to live independently, but in a more supportive environment than you might find at college.
Most recently her passion for place - based education has led her to Conserve School, an environmentally focused semester school in northern Wisconsin, where she teaches Environmental Stewardship to
boarding school students.
The TABS study surveyed more than 1,000
boarding school students and alumni and compared them to 1,100 public school students and 600 private day school students.
The results suggest that
boarding school students are better prepared for college than students who attend private day schools and public schools and that boarding school students also make faster progress in their careers.
The TABS study also shows that
boarding school students are more likely to report having high - quality teachers than private or public schools.
I read it when I was 13 — the same copy that my mom read as
a boarding school student three decades before.