A social acquaintance of mine did.  I can't imagine sending my kid to live somewhere else 9 months out of the year.

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Does the state reform school count?

There is a military school in my town. I feel sorry for some of those kids. To add insult to injury many are made to go to the summer school program they have there too.

Lots of DC based foreign diplomat kids go there from what I understand. Lots of Korean and Indian kids too.

That said the school (Randolph-Macon Academy) gets top-notch ratings. It costs about 40K a year to send a kid there when you count all the "extras". 34K base.

It's changed a lot. I remember when it was just more of a place for rich people in the DC area to send their unruly kids. LOL....I don't know how many times they would set it on fire to be able to go home.

I did. I went as a sophomore. I was a good kid at home as well. I didnt get shipped off. I went because it offered an opportunity to have a better education.















































 

I did. There is a huge range of schools. Some where delinquents are sent vs some that are the most prestigious prep schools in the country.

A close friend of the family was sent to one. (in the '30's)  I think it screwed up his concept of family for the rest of his life.

I worked with a guy from a VERY politically prominent family in GA.  His mother pushed his father to ship him off to military school at age 5.  He only got to go home for Christmas break.  From age 5 until he graduated at age 18 and then he joined the AF.  He never had anything to do with his parents after that.

He had absolutely zero concept of family life.  But his mom and dad were able to party with the elite every night and play horsey set with zero cares about her child causing any interference.

When she dropped dead of a heart attack, the guy celebrated for days, including drinking a bottle of scotch as her funeral was going on (he did not attend).  To this day I feel the guy would have been far better off if his parents had put him up for adoption instead of putting him away at military school.  He might not have been part of a well-monied family if that happened, but growing up in a working class family with interaction with parents would be better than what he got.

nope

My family relocated to the DC area during my freshman year.  I went to FUMA that year and returned to public school the next year. I was really into athletics so FUMA wasn't that bad as the facilities and programs are really good.  No chicks though but I dated a fluvanna chick some how ....

I went because I chose to.  Good kid at home, good kid there, great relationship with my parents.  It isn't the kind of school kids get "shipped off to".  Great education and as an added bonus it made college seem easy.

For those that say you would never do this, if you haven't taught your child good values, decision making skills, work ethic, etc. by age 13, you never will.

I went all 4 years of high school because I wanted to
Tried public school for 2 years in 7th and 8th grades and it was nothing but a daycare for yutes

I will try to get my kids to go too only to avoid government schools

Call it selfish. I would want that time with my kid.

Not implying anything in your case, just voicing a personal preference.

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It seems like it would make you stronger.
Going by what I've read over the years it would appear to separate the wheat from the chaff.