Is this a UK thing? I live in an African country where the best schools tend to be boarding schools, and so people are happy to send their children there. I was at such a school myself from the age of 12, and I never once thought that my parents had "sent me off" or 'dumped' me. In fact, I would say that 60 to 70% of the kids in my country are in boarding.
Does this mean that all the parents in my country who make this choice are bad parents? Or is this just a UK thing?
More importantly, I have heard really great things about the pastoral care at UK boarding schools, and would actually consider sending my own DC to a UK school when DC is about 12.
I am trying to get my head around why this would be such a bad choice, as it seems to be from the Mumsnet posts I have read. I can understand why some parents would not want to send their own DCs to such schools, but why is there such an immediate and visceral reaction about the choices that other parents make for THEIR children?
Surely parents who choose this option do it for the best reasons, and they would be careful about the schools they choose?
So why so much hate about choices other parents make for their own children?
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DaemonPantalaemon · 19/06/2013 10:46
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