"Do flight attendants have to go to boarding school?” is a joke that was posted on Twitter by Pundamentalism‏ on September 20, 2011. “When I was six-years-old, my parents sent me off to boarding school.  They were desperate for me to be a flight attendant” was posted on Twitter on July 13, 2013.

“Flight attendants go to boarding school” was posted on Twitter on March 27, 2014. “I’d like to think all flight attendants went to boarding school” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on February 1, 2018.


Wikipedia: Boarding school
A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school. The word “boarding” is used in the sense of “room and board” i.e., lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now extend across many countries, their function and ethos varies greatly. In some times and places boarding schools are the most elite educational option (as in the classic English rivals, Eton and Harrow, which have produced many prime ministers), whereas in other contexts, they serve as places to segregate children deemed a problem to their parents or wider society. Notoriously, Canada and the United States tried to assimilate indigenous children in the Canadian Indian residential school system and American Indian boarding schools respectively. Some function essentially as orphanages, e.g. the G.I. Rossolimo Boarding School Number 49 in Russia. Tens of millions of rural children are now educated at boarding schools in China. Therapeutic boarding schools offer treatment for psychological difficulties. Military academies provide strict discipline.

Twitter
Pundamentalism‏
@Pundamentalism
@serafinowicz Do flight attendants have to go to boarding school? #PSQA
5:34 PM - 20 Sep 2011

Twitter
EraseMeOutBaltimore‏
@EraseMeOutBalt
RT @causticbob: When I was six-years-old, my parents sent me off to boarding school.  They were desperate for me to be a flight attendant.
6:28 AM - 13 Jul 2013

Twitter
Eric Duffy‏
@duffscribes
Flight attendants go to boarding school.
12:12 PM - 27 Mar 2014

Reddit—Dad Jokes
“We went to boarding school.” (self.dadjokes)
submitted August 7, 2015 by madibt14
“Are you guys flight attendants?”
“No. Why would you all that?”
“Cause y’all know all about boarding.”

Twitter
Ric Parker‏
@ImRicParker
As a kid I dreamed of becoming a flight attendant. My dreams were crushed when I couldn’t get into boarding school.
4:08 PM - 27 Aug 2015

Twitter
Ryan Brookshire‏
@correctbehavior
Where do flight attendants learn how to be so welcoming?
At boarding school.
3:12 PM - 24 Mar 2016

Twitter
Tony Junior‏
@tj_24601
our neighbour is sending their daughter off to boarding school ..... apparently she wants to be a flight attendant
3:19 AM - 14 Jul 2017

Reddit—Oneliners
I’d like to think all flight attendants went to boarding school.
submitted February 1, 2018 by Limmy92