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Learn about choosing a boarding school to ensure the best education for your son or daughter. Find tips on gathering information about private schools and what to look for when visiting a campus. Get help on researching independent schools for girls and boys.
StrugglingTeens.com 
StrugglingTeens.com is published by Woodbury Reports, Inc. Our goal is to be the leading online source of information for parents of children making poor decisions, and professionals trying to help those families and professionals working with at-risk teens. The focus is on residential Emotional Growth (Character) schools and programs that work. This includes short and long term wilderness and outdoor programs, home style programs, highly structured boarding schools, therapy boarding schools, RTCs and psychiatric hospitals for children with behavior and emotional problems. All emphasize teaching self-discipline, consequences, responsibility, accountability and improved self-esteem.
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Teen Boarding Schools
Evaluating boarding schools for teens struggling in school or troubled teens can be overwhelming. Find boarding schools that can not only address your child's behavioral issues but will improve their school work and give you hope for their academic and professional working future.
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Therapeutic Boarding Schools
Students struggling with motivational and self-esteem issues often find success through a structured, emotional growth boarding school environment. Catering to the non-traditional student, therapeutic-based boarding schools offer social, emotional, physical, and spiritual guidance, in addition to educational enrichment for troubled teens.
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Boarding School Options
Choosing whether to send your child to a boarding school may be even more difficult than you anticipated. Most Americans did not grow up with the tradition of attending boarding school and did not plan this as the way to educate their children. Sometimes, however, choosing the boarding school option may be the best choice for your child.
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Choosing A School - A Guide for Parents
Choice in education is as precious a right as choice in the marketplace, choice in religion, choice in government. This guide is offered as an aid to parents considering independent schools, although the questions it suggests are appropriate for any school.
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Choosing the Right School
Your decision to consider an independent school is just the beginning. You must choose the right school from the hundreds available. There are day and boarding schools; coeducational, girls', and boys' schools. Enrollment varies from a few dozen to a few thousand students.
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How to Evaluate and Choose a School
The following article responds to some of those questions and provides additional information and resources that may be helpful for parents when they are faced with making a school transition for their child.
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How to Find the Right Private School
Families choose a private education for their children for many reasons, but finding the right school takes a lot of homework (and legwork). Bottom line: The process can be grueling and requires considerable time and effort. But if you research carefully and involve your child in the process, you're likely to find a program that meets his or her goals and your expectations.
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Information on Choosing a Boarding School
Choosing a boarding school is not easy and you will need to gather together as much information as possible. Don't rely on information provided by the school, talk to pupils and their parents if at all possible. The more schools you are able to visit, the easier it will be for you to make a decision.
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School Visit - Things to Look For Questions to Ask
No amount of research can replace an in-person visit to the schools you're considering. A school visit is an invaluable way to learn about whether a particular school is the right place for your child. Even after a short visit, you'll have a much richer sense of the school's strengths, challenges and approaches toward teaching and learning.
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Selecting the Right School
Finding the "right match" is not an easy process and parents should gather as much information as possible. Parents should consider a number of schools as many schools have more applicants than places for new students.
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Therapeutic Boarding Schools
This informative website offers help for parents considering boarding school for their child. It explains how to choose a boarding school, what questions to ask, and how to deal with feelings of guilt and homesickness.
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Boarding School Directory
