Press Release Author = Dore E. Frances, Founder of Horizon Family Solutions, LLC
Industry = Education
Press Release Summary = Many boarding schools pointedly note that, these days, the \"prep\" in \"prep school\" refers not just to college preparation -- it also means preparation for life.
Press Release Body = All in all, a boarding school education prepares the student to answer the question that every college wants to know about the student\'s high-school years:
How much did you grow?
Why NOT attend a traditional boarding school?
* If a troubled teen doesn\'t want to attend a traditional boarding school, don\'t force it on him or her. A good specialty boarding school can magnify motivation even if the teen is initially unwilling to attend.
* Traditional Boarding School students are highly motivated, self-disciplined well-mannered students. If your son or daughter isn't self-disciplined or highly motivated other more appropriate educational options should be considered.
* When you have a troubled teen, or a teen with a history of special needs, such as an eating disorder or psychological problems, it\'s important for the school to have special medical and counseling staff to meet the student\'s needs.
* If the student has never met a rule he or she wasn\'t challenged to break.
* If the student is clearly unable to accept new ideas and adapt to new social interactions.
However, in many of these cases, there is an effective solution -- some specialty boarding schools are geared specifically to providing such troubled teens with guidance, the necessary social structure and an excellent education. These schools are very unique and have proven themselves to be phenomenal in their ability to help troubled teens and their families reunite while simultaneously allowing the teen fantastic life, emotional and academic educational opportunities. Counseling is also available at these schools and these boarding schools are able to work with students that do not wish to be in such educational environments. The boarding school doesn\'t replace a parent. The school is more like a sibling, or a mentor. Partnering with parent, the school reinforces the parent\'s voice. On the other hand, the boarding school can relieve the parent from having to constantly \"enforce the rules.\" This may enable the parent to relate from what both parent and student find a more pleasant position. A single parent, in particular, may find boarding school a mutually attractive option. Yet, the single parent is often most concerned about the appearance of this suggestion. How, the single parent worries, will child will see it? The parent doesn\'t want to be seen as wanting the child \"out of the way.\" Or as saying the child \"interferes\" with the parent\'s job or social life. The parent may even feel guilty. Not wanting to appear insensitive, to the single parent it can seem there is no appropriate way improve the child\'s educational opportunities. The child\'s counselors and boarding school itself can help work though this issue. Often the parent is far more concerned than the child is about such appearances. Where the child lacks a male role model, boarding schools may enable the student to choose from a wide range of them.
Likewise parents enrolling a child into a specialty boarding school often times feel bad sometimes feeling that they had failed their child as a parent, ironically almost universally the opposite is true these parents are so dedicated to their child\'s sucess that they are willing to spend Harvard tuition rates to give their child the professional assistance that they need. Some specialty boarding schools have excellent motivational and awareness coaches that conduct workshops and educational seminars for the parents of these once struggling teens the parents are not spectators in their childs growth and development they act as active participants. As the child progresses they parent (s) and child have opportunities to re-bond and oftentimes the student will thank their parents for holding them to higher standards and sacrificing much energy, financial resources, time for their behalf.
No one school would be right for everyone. The school should meet the student\'s current interests, yet offer the opportunity to explore new interests as well. The only \"best\" school is the one that best suits a particular student\'s needs, as judged by the parents, the school and the student. In a sense, the whole family attends a boarding school. For traditional boarding school conduct your search as a family. It is extremely important that your child be involved in the entire process. For specialty boarding schools oftentimes the student is not at a maturity level to be involved in the specialty boarding school decision. A specialty boarding school encompasses many of the positive aspects of traditional boarding schools while giving more focus and specialization to character building, emotional growth and development, manners, leadership, confidence and helping teens learn how to make good decisions.
Clearly, today\'s boarding schools continue to have tremendous academic and social appeal, and with this added diversity, they remain faithful to their goals of preparing students for personal growth and exceptional achievement in a changing world.
2025
