"I'm still considering candidates for professors," Strange said.
"Don't look at me. I'm not going," Schiller said. "Teaching students is far too much of a headache."
"But you're good with children," Strange said. "You always get along well with young people. We need teachers like that."
Schiller was about to argue further when Strange continued, "You should know boarding schools aren't easy. Adults would be one thing, but a whole group of children leaving their homes to study alone far from their parents and families, in a relatively closed environment like a school... I'm afraid there won't be any shortage of psychological problems."
Schiller sighed. He knew Strange was right. Boarding schools could be terrifying.
Boarding schools were different from simply living on campus. Students living on campus could go home on weekends, but at boarding schools, they stayed for an entire term, sometimes not even being allowed home during holidays.
The most troublesome thing was that boarding schools covered such long stretches of school age. Some combined elementary and middle school, while others combined elementary school, middle school, and high school. Students could spend more than a decade there.
That meant if you couldn't get along with your teachers and classmates, you could spend your entire childhood and adolescence living in an environment where you were bullied.
Parents who could throw their children into boarding school usually weren't all that responsible, either. Most only wanted to have children, not raise them. All they asked was that the school not let the children run away, and the children had no way to get help from them. That meant being completely isolated and helpless for more than a decade. It would be stranger if they didn't develop psychological problems.
Even if everyone at the school was a good person and every