Second Look: Grieving My Boarding School Loneliness

I’m looking back at articles I wrote years ago on Substack to see how I feel retrospectively. This time, it’s "Grieving My Boarding School Loneliness", published in February 2021.

I’ve been watching horror revelations about abuse in the boarding house at a prominent private school in a large regional city in my state. The litany of awfulness is never-ending. Senior boys have been physically assaulting younger kids in the boarding house. Ten senior boarders were sent home last month as the school investigated a ‘punishment ring’ f…