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Hogwarts is fiction, but the Harry Potter books capture what a good boarding school can give a teenager, from a house that feels like home to adults who notice. Here is what is real, and what is not.
In Britain, boarding is a familiar option rather than a red flag, even though few children board. What American families can borrow is the attitude: boarding as one ordinary choice, judged on fit.
No. College-prep boarding schools admit students the way selective private schools do. Programs for teenagers in crisis are a separate kind of care, and in Arizona many are licensed health facilities.
Some homesickness is normal. Most young people away from home miss it, usually mildly. Here is what helps students and parents, and the signs that it has become something more.
A dorm parent is an adult who lives with or beside the students in a boarding residence and looks after them outside class. Here is what the job covers, how schools should screen them, and what to ask.
Five-day boarding means your teenager lives at school on weeknights and comes home for weekends. It suits families within a weekend drive who want boarding's routine without giving up weekends together.