I really can’t understand why anyone would send a child under 16 to boarding school (unless, say, they had such challenging behaviour the family could no longer manage it).
I feel like even if the child enjoys it, it won’t sit right with them in future that their parents were happy to optionally spend so little time with them.
There were also a lot of interesting posts on the previous thread from partners of people who went to boarding school, and how it impacts their lives today.