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When I was in high school I often thought about running away from home. The problem was that I was not the sort of in trouble kid you associate with this. I was a good student and wanted to finish high school and go to college. Ir was just my parents I wanted to run away from, particularly my dad. I used fantasize ways to run away from home and still stay in school like somehow finding a place to store a sleeping bag at school and finding an open room to sleep in at the school. It occurred to me years later that a boarding school would have been absolutely ideal for someone like me. My parents weren't poor, but they weren't boarding school level rich either. So I got to thinking that it might be helping for there to be some kind of boarding school scholarship program specifically for kids that need to get away from their parents. Or maybe just the possibility of lodging at the school when there are problems at home. Programs for runaways that I have seen seem to focus on getting the children home. But what if they aren't really better off at home? The advantage also of a boarding school is that my dad wasn't turn into the police bad. I wouldn't have wanted to lose all contact with my family either. The amount of contact with them if I had been at a boarding school would have been just about right.
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