Anyone agree?

All that quaintness of a little boarding school in a little town. It just seemed so nice and comfy. And, having friends that were close knit. It would have been awesome.

Did anyone here actually go to a boarding school? What was it like? Did FOL sum up your experience? Or, was it completely different?

Oh Eastland, a cross between summer camp and Sing-Sing, where you can smell the hairspray in the hallways and the uniforms are made of not wool but STEEL WOOL!

When I was in Eighth grade, I was very unhappy with the school my stupid parents sent me too (and it was awful, and I should have never been there in the first place, why is personal, but valid) and I failed all my classes. My father was very angry and threatened to send me to military school. At the time I was in scouting somewhat and had a subscription to their magazine (Boys Life?). In the back, they had ads for military schools.

To most kids, the "threat" of military school made most kids shape up. Personally, I wanted to go. Honestly. It would have gotten me the hell away from my parents, and I had no siblings or other close family, and to me ironically, Military School would have offered me some freedom away from them.

In the end, the cost of military school I think was prohibitive. They could have afforded it, but spending several thousand dollars for me to go to junior high was a bit silly. I was grounded for the next six weeks until the next report card came out, I passed all classes with a C or better, and then we moved away and I went to a much better high school (the actor Chris Parnell was in my graduating class).

Funny, in college my father (the man with all the bad ideas) wanted me in ROTC. I did it for a semester and hated it, the uniform, getting yelled at, short haircuts and BS. Maybe if I went to that military school back in eighth grade, I might have done well in that program, but probably not.