Any boarding school kids here?

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I go to a boarding school for kids* who couldn't cope being in mainstream school. Some of the kids there are on the autistic spectrum, but there is a good mix of different people with different difficulties and abilities, which makes it a weird and wonderful place to be

All in all, I love it there. Wondering if anyone else here goes to boarding school and their experiences there? I'm sure a lot of you probably couldn't think of anything worse, and four years ago I probably would agree about that, but my school is totally different.

(*I say kids, I'm 18 now nearly 19 but I'm a kid at heart )

My parents wanted to send me to one a few years ago in Flordia because public school wasn't working out. They figured I would just act up until they kicked me out and sent me back home. I also got so anxious when forced into a situation like that I would go catonic. Homeschooling is what worked for me.

I was sent away to a christian boarding school in Oklahoma. I hated it but it didn't solve any of the problems that I was sent there for. I think that I would have been much better off going to a private school here in Denver than be sent halfway across the country.

An Aspie friend of mine went to Philips Academy in New Hampshire, and hated it there. He hid from other kids in a section of the library no one went to--German literature. Today, he's one of the leading scholars of German culture outside Germany.

I go to boarding school out here in middle-of-nowhere, Virginia. I like it for two reasons: 1) Much more challenging than my public school would have been at home, and 2) Not very many people. There are only about 400 students total here. At home, the local high school has some 5000 students.

Hi rosie, it's good that you have positive experiences going to a boarding school. I'm sure there are parents who are considering sending their kids for different reasons. Although I'm not against them doing it, I still prefer to take careful precautions in trying to find the right school for their kids with special needs. Others in particular would likely prefer home schooling as an alternative school for their kids before even considering special schools like that of a therapeutic nature. Although I think home schooling would really need parents to have a substantial amount of resources for their kids to cope with the regular lessons like that in a normal school curriculum.