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I don't get the upside of sending a high school age teenager away to a boarding school (military or whatever other variety) if there are good quality public or private schools in your home area. It seems like if a high school teenager has a stable home plus friends / other family in the local area, why ship them off to a far away school? Who cares if the in-laws or whomever else have money to throw around? Let them put the cash into a future college fund. The exception might be for a one year foreign exchange student experience (which is what I did for one year at age 16), something which obviously can't be replicated in your local area.
If your kid is serious about a future military career, take the suggestion of a prior poster, let them try junior ROTC, which is open to high school age kids. That is the best pathway to get into ROTC in college years or perhaps one of the service academies.
I don't get the upside of sending a high school age teenager away to a boarding school (military or whatever other variety) if there are good quality public or private schools in your home area. It seems like if a high school teenager has a stable home plus friends / other family in the local area, why ship them off to a far away school? Who cares if the in-laws or whomever else have money to throw around? Let them put the cash into a future college fund. The exception might be for a one year foreign exchange student experience (which is what I did for one year at age 16), something which obviously can't be replicated in your local area.
If your kid is serious about a future military career, take the suggestion of a prior poster, let them try junior ROTC, which is open to high school age kids. That is the best pathway to get into ROTC in college years or perhaps one of the service academies.
Keep in mind that not all high schools have JROTC programs. I'm guessing maybe 10% of the schools in my region have JROTC programs.
It might give him some direction before making a bigger commitment.
Excellent advice. He may like the idea but not the reality.
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