How do I get my parents to let me go to a boarding school?

I really wanna go to boarding school?

• It is my biggest dream right now! But my parents wont let me go until 10th grade and only for one year. I wanna go next year, start and hopefully finish high school there. I hate it here, it is so insecure that i cant walk in the streets, my mom has to drive me everywhere. I live in a small community where everyone knows everything about you and your family. In this community there are like 5 small schools (Prep-Schools) and I tried switching schools but since people already know me I dont get the chance to be myself really. I became really shy around people my age since my parents divorced but im not like that. Outside this community im really popular and have a lot of friends, the problem is that my parents wont let me go to a school outside this community. Boarding school is my dream and I wanna goo! But Idk how to convice my parents to go next year and finish high school there. Its not like i havent spoke to them about these, and they are not really saying no but neither yes, and the deadline is in like a month and a half in most schools.. Ive been to prep school all my life so i know how hard boarding school will be. THANKSS!

• Answer:

  Perhaps your going about it the wrong way...I understand how you feel, and completely understand the feeling and think it would be good for you to get out to boarding school (only since that's what you want). I think staying somewhere where your always dis-content is not healthy mentally or physically and your life will go in a direction evan you won't see it going till its too late. In order for you to completely understand what I'm about to say without rolling ur eyes and think I'm talking smoke you must understand this about me. I moved around a lot (a lot lot) as a kid, sometimes every other month sometimes we stay for 2 years, hard to tell. I lived in big huge cites like LA,CA Miami,FL to medium cites like Columbus, Ohio Chicago,IL Espenola,NM, and evan on Indian reservations where beliefs are kinda different, they were great people with interesting spiritual rituals and were nice to my (no I'm not indain lol I'm white not that it really matters). I also lived in very quiet backwoods places that only had one school ( K-12 and no, it was not a prep school) no post office no fire dept. no police dept. Seen more crazy stuff by 10 than most see in their life. You are soooo going about the wrong way, you have really never been actually out in the real world and your parents are thinking the same thing. (I'm 28 so I not old but not young either) Not that I'm saying you don't know anything but they are worried about you leaving your safety nest because its a normal parents reaction., instead of saying mom/dad I wanna go far away to a boarding school and rarely (or never not sure in ur case) ever come back here, even it if that don't come out ur mouth the vibes in ur actions are saying that...Try this approach instead: Hey mom/dad I like to experiment with this (I'm sure u have a school in mind) such and such school for a year like you said to see if I will like it or not. From everything you say in ur view and what they are saying to counter ur words seems they feel like ur jumping the gun at a young age...Agree to the one year term and be content with it, tell them you will make ur mind up on the other years after the ur first year is over, one thing you will learn (took me a while to learn too) is if you want adults to be reasonable you have to be reasonable too, besides after you been there a year they will be more used to the idea of it..providing you screw up that year and get into trouble or fail the year or even both..you only have a month to work this out with them so if you really want you got two choices 1)be stubborn and it not happen or 2)compromise and see how the first year goes and they may just end up letting spending the whole 4 there by time its all over and done with. But I never been to prep-school or boarding school so I can't really advise to too far into the school part ( guess long as u get a diploma guess who cares) about it and seems ur getting into a negative mindset thats gonna do you more bad than good where you are now..Sometimes you gotta prove your serious about things you want by compromising because when people think ur willing to listen and work it out they think more strongly of you and that you might be able to handle it far away out there...as for the depression over ur parents divorce mine got devorced when I was like 7-8, do you see them both? and they both love you? if yes whats there to be ssad about..GOOD LUCK..Don't like people any one push you into things you really don't wanna do such as sex or some kinna harsh drugs, you don't owe that to anyone, don't forget those words I just said.