Boarding schools- Clearing it up!(was: no sex please..)

tallulah_sam tallulah_sam at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 22 15:59:59 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 83333

Ok I'm going to try and maybe clear some bits up for you all, 
although obviously I'm no expert! I have recently left secondary 
school here in Britain (2 years ago), and I'm now at college. I live 
in an area renowned for its boarding schools & although I do not go to 
one I know people that do and as there are schoolgirls and boys all 
over the place I've got a pretty good idea of what's going on! 
As for the young people and sex argument, well I'm afraid to say 
that it's half and half! Of course there were lots of people doing 
it, even more talking about it and there was a huge amount of 
pressure to go along with it, but there was also a lot of bravado, 
and if you got down to the truth lots of people were just lying. I 
do think that the books are slightly unrealistic in this sense, but 
there's an obvious reason for the omission, they are *children's* 
books!
As for boarding schools there is the general idea here that the 
schoolgirls and boys (i.e. private schoolers) are even more up for 
it than us, and the girls especially are known for being rather 
liberal!! 
As for the amount of free time they get- they generally get most 
evenings from about 7 but cannot leave the grounds, they have 
lessons on a Saturday morning until lunch but have the afternoon 
off, and they have to go to church early on Sunday morning but once 
again have the afternoon off. They are quite restricted and have to 
be in their dorms by a certain time but I don't honestly think this 
is too dissimilar to Hogwarts, as it doesn't seem to teach any 
religious studies or compulsory sports!
Hope this helps and doesn't sound too know-all-ish!

Tallulah X







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