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For both the staff and the students, it’s hard to have a private life at a boarding school – you really have to make an effort to be alone.

For staff, being ‘off duty’ doesn’t mean a thing to the kids when you live in the same building, the same floor, the same corridor. Whether it’s a harmless secret, or something more interesting, you’ll eventually get found out.

For the students, finding a place to have some one-on-one time is never easy. I have to hand it to the older kids, they are certainly creative in finding solutions:

 • Renting a local apartment for the year to use as a party, sex, smoking and drinking pad.

 • Building a forest hut, able to withstand the rain, but not the snow; great for the summer months.

 • Visiting the local cave – a thirty-minute hike, but that’s nothing for two lusting teenagers!

How do I find these things out? I don’t go looking, and I really don’t want to know, but I don’t always have a choice.