BOARDING

[huntzoey]

Have you ever had to remove your child from a boarding school and place them in another because you found out some disquieting information about the school after you had already enrolled them as a boarding student?

To make matters worse this is occurring during the critical prep school years, they are not attending a senior school yet.

I suppose all boarding schools and maybe even all schools have "disquieting" information about them - it depends on how well the school(s) manages to keep the information quiet and how the disquieting may lead to the detriment of the school in its everyday affairs. Of particular importance is how the "disquieting information" may negatively impact on your child?

In any case, it's not easy to instantly find an alternative boarding school (even assuming you can find it) and think your child can hit the ground of the new school running as if it's a continuation of the old school.

Which critical prep school year are you talking about? Is it yr 8?
We seriously considered moving our DS2 from one boarding prep to another in yr 8. Finding a place was not an issue all we contact (the usual well known ones) all were happy to take him mind he did have a place at two top school this helped I suspect. My DS is a very adaptable individual and I had little doubt that he would hit the ground running in fact I was pretty convinced that any move would be beneficial to him both emotionally and academically. We didn’t move him and TBH I regret it to this day.
You say you have found out something “disquieting” perhaps it’s my occupation but my mind immediately screams safe guarding if this is the case please move him and please please report it. If it’s not safe guarding you need to decide how worrying this information is (realistically youre unlikely to be able to do anything about it) the impact it’s having on your DC and you the impact of moving your DC to another prep how well you think your DC would cope with a move. We agonised for weeks for a reason I don’t know why in retrospect and made the wrong decision (this was many years ago) we should have just pulled him out as his last year was not a happy one for any of us.