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· California's Midland School isn't a regular boarding school—parents pay over $55,000 for their children to spend six weeks without their cellphones in cabins, doing chores and farming for their own food. Business Insider discusses the unconventional program and the impact it has on the lives of the students.

· What benefits could this school provide for young individuals growing up in our technology-centered society? What life lessons and skills does this school teach students?

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Tucked in a grassy canyon along the Central Coast is a high school where students chop wood and tend livestock between their history and calculus classes.

Doubling as a working farm, the campus differs from the typical American high school in another crucial respect: No one among the faculty or the roughly 90 students ever looks at a cell phone.

Midland School, a co-ed boarding school in Los Olivos, was established in 1932. The idea, as founder Paul Squibb put it, was that a student who appreciates his material blessings, "will live a more vivid and interesting life and will be a better citizen."

The credo is reflected in the instructions given to incoming freshmen, who are encouraged to bring three important objects: an axe, a knife, and a lighter. Cell phones, meanwhile, are confiscated until the end of the six-week term.

Read the full article about this unconventional boarding school by Mike McPhate at Business Insider.