If your looking to set your child up for the most ...

If your looking to set your child up for the most miserable years of his life, send him to Cardigan Mountain school. Unless your child is friendless and has little to no social life, I highly would not recommend sending him here. Cardigan gives little to no options to their students on there one day off Sunday. They still have to check in and all of their freedom can be taken, forcing them to work on academics or work on sunday morning, sit in a desk for two hours on saturday night, work at 1pm on Sunday as well. It is in an extremely rural location with little to do in the first place, but the school seems to try to limit as many activities as possible. Even harmless computer games such shellshocked.io (search it up). On the weekends there are minimal trips- only going to an extremely low quality convenient store near called "Papa Zs". Most children spend their saturday night and sunday in their rooms on their computers for 5+ hours, occasionally going to free skate or to the tennis courts, making each weekend bland and repetitive. The bland and repetitiveness of the weekends forces the students to break the rules to find excitement of any type. Students have tried to present ideas to the faculty on multiple occasions but because the faculty put no effort into trying to change. Even when a clear presentation outlining everything necessary for the change, it is ignored. There is also zero trust between the students and faculty. The faculty don't even trust the students enough to turn the light off during a musical because they are afraid students will "yell or throw objects". Here are some of the ridiculous rules: no phones, no effort to incorporate social events with other schools, not allowed to play tennis or basketball in the gym or indoor tennis courts without faculty supervision (no faculty wants to go out of their way to do this), all dorms are usually off bounds on the weekends meaning the students cannot go into their friends dorms, due to this when there is snow outside the students cannot play outside or hang out in each other's dorms, there is quite literally nothing to do. My son tried talking in the doorway with his friends and was shooed away back to his room. The students also cannot keep their computer at night, which is very inconvenient for them. Also imminently showing the lack of trust between students and faculty. Most of the faculty seem to just need a place to temporarily live while they get their plans straight. In fact in some cases the teachers do not have any college recognition in the subject they are teaching. Those teachers who do care have had conversations with my son expressing their feelings about the school, and completely understanding the complaints my child makes. My children also tell me the faculty themselves do not have communication between the administration, resulting in schedule mishaps. Another issue is in disciplinary cases there is absolutely no communication between the school and the kids, except when they are worried about deteriorating their image. The principal makes an extremely vague announcement along the lines of we need to get stronger as a community. He also spends over half of his time off campus and does not know most of the childrens names, creating an even bigger rift in the "tight nit community". This is often something the school expresses pride in, but the only thing that unites the students is their shared hatred of the school. The students are majority repeats, some being in tenth grade and feel treated like children because frankly they are. I understand there are some younger students on campus (not even 20 6th graders) but this does not mean that the ninth and tenth graders should be categorized at that age. Day in and day out my children complain about cardigan, awaiting their final day. Whenever I ask what they are doing they simply say nothing and I know just how true it is. I am fortunate to have a son who is open and willing to communicate with me honestly and made me realize the only things he will miss when he leaves the school is his friends