Figure 1.--Boys at boarding schools spend a great dealm of time together from when they get up in the moring to when they go to bed at night. The children at boarding chool get to know each other better than anyone will get to know each other outside their families. They form friendships that many will remembervtheir entire lives.

Some boarding school children describe boarding schools as a great place to meet new people and to have fun while you're at school. This of course is also the case of day schools. Here the primary difference is the attitude of the children with being away from their parents. Some children are not at all happy about the separation while other children are able to make the adjustment, even at a young age. In fact some children are more flexible at a young age. This all depends on the infividual child and how the parents have prepred them for a bording school experience. Boarding schools allows children to form really close persoinal friendships. The children at boarding chool get to know each other better than anyone will get to know each other outside their families. Not only do the children sprnd a great deal of time together, but they face many of the same problems and concerns together which is especially prone to forming close relationships. They often work together on a variety of teams, especially sports teams. We were at a small school when their Rugby team returned from a real drubbing from a larger school. The master who coached the team coudn't have been prouder of them. They had given their all against a more skilled team with bigger boys. That kind of expoerience id both chracter building and createds the kind of friendships among team mates that can not be exagerate, often far more important that that forged among winning teams. And they enjoy a wide variety of recreatiinal activities together, games and sports. Allof this commonly results in acquiring a rage of important social skills. A British teacher, tells us,"Never thought of these aspects of boarding school life. It is what our Primary 4 day residential field trip is all about. Mobile phones are a pain though as the softise want to phone mummy or is it the other way round mum can't bore to be s3eparated from their little ones. The best adapobility are kids who don't bring mobile phones and speak to their parents when they return." Austrlian and New Zealand schools,including both private and public scgools, have camp programs aimed at providing students a brief taste of the the kinds of experiences that boarding school children obtain.

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