Here's the deal I hate my life as is and I'm simply tired of waiting around for something to happen to me. Since my family simply doesn't want to move, I thought of boarding school which lead me to boarding school in England. On my bucket list I have live in England for a year, and that would be crossed off it I went to school there, plus I'd get away from this place I hate while my family could stay here. Obviously I'd miss my family a lot but I've lost all my friends {because I've moved seven times before} and the ones I've made here sadly aren't much different so I wouldn't miss them much. For some reason listening to British accents calms me down and I love the rain, as far as I know it rains a ton in England. My parents also worry about how shy I am, if they aren't there I'd have to take charge for myself but I'd also have to live under the schools watch and I'm not sure how strict that is, plus I've never had to share a room with anyone before. And that's the basics. I've been told that because I'm an 11th grader in America I'd be a fifth form/ lower sixth/ year 12 in England so how many total years of school would I have left? In America I'd finish this grade go to 12th grade and then hit about 4 years of college, so five years in total. Legally how could/ would I stay there? Neither of my parents would come with me and I know no one in England, I have family in Germany and that's the closest even as friends. Would I have to fill out legal papers for that, if so what? Could I even stay there for a full school year, because somewhere I read I could only stay for six months? How old to you have to be to drive there? And how old to work? Chances are I'd have to work. Financially why is it so expensive to go to school in England, for me in America it's free 'til I hit college, then again I go to public school. Would my family be able to get assistance with paying for school, like a scholarship? Do a lot of British people even go to British boarding schools or is it all people from separate countries? Any tips or concerns you have for a teenage girl leaving home to go to school in a place literally foreign to her? Do you think I should go? Any boarding school suggestions? Thank you so much, almost anything will be helpful -Note: I have asked this question many times but each time I get new and useful answers
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You can't do this sensibly. Our education system has two years at the end which depend massively on one another. You can't just come and do upper sixth - you won't have any AS results. You certainly wouldn't get a scholarship as they would all have been allocated in the previous year. No boarding school would let you work. You have to be 17 to drive. Boarding schools are not free in the US either. I'm afraid I pretty much started laughing when I got to the comments about the "British accent". Would that be Cockney, Scouse, Northern Irish...? Please take the rose coloured glasses off. No, it is not like in the movies. This is completely unrealistic. If you really want to come to the UK for a year, I recommend you go to a college which has a "junior year abroad" program.
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It's not expensive to go to school in the UK, if you go to a NORMAL SCHOOL. Ordinary state schools are free. The vast majority of British children pay nothing for their school education. It's just the same as in the US - go to a private school, and you pay. Go to a state (or public) school and you don't pay. If you want to go to a boarding school, then of course you will to pay, because they are private schools - just like boarding schools in America. Scholarships are only offered to deserving (ie, extremely intelligent) British kids who have passed an entrance exam, not for American teenagers who just fancy taking a year's holiday in England. The only state (ie free) boarding places for schools in the UK are generally for children who live so far away from the nearest secondary school that they cannot travel there and back every day - so, pretty much only kids that live on remote islands in the Hebrides, Orkney or Shetland. Naturally, those school places are limited to those pupils who cannot manage without them, and you would usually be expected to go home at weekends anyway. Almost no British children go to boarding schools. They are few and far between and almost solely for the rich. You wouldn't be allowed to work if you were at boarding school. They don't just randomly let you out in the evenings or weekends. You are expected to be on school premises almost all the time. Also, you wouldn't have a work permit because you aren't a British citizen and you wouldn't have a working visa because you'd be here to study. I'm really sorry, but your impression of the UK is absurdly idealised. There's no such thing as 'a British accent', for a start. England and Britain are not the same thing. And no accent would you calm you down if it was telling you you had a parking ticket or that you were stupid or that you'd spilt someone's pint. The British are no more 'calming' than anyone else. (Football hooliganism, anyone?) It rains a lot less here than it does in America's Pacific North West. You have to be 17 to drive and you would need to pass a much tougher driving test than you would in America, and petrol (gas) is about five times the price here as it is in the US. You wouldn't be able to just start school in the Upper 6th (year 12) because you wouldn't be able to get a single qualification, because you wouldn't have done the first half of your A-levels and you'd have no GCSEs. You'd be leaving school with nothing. If you want to visit Britain, come for a holiday, or wait until you're ready for college and do an exchange programme where you get to spend a year here at university - that would be MUCH more feasible, not least because you'd be an adult by then. Why on earth do you think anyone would give you financial assistance to pay for you to come to school here? Don't you think that British schools might be more inclined to offer scholarships to British children? Why would a British school pay for you to study here? What are you going to give back? You'd study here and then move away again. You won't be contributing anything to society whatsoever. Your parents aren't even UK taxpayers!
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