...that is the question! And if so, which one?
Here's the background: dd is 9, in yr 5. We are moving in June (already sorted) to a vilalge in Hertfordshire. It has a village school that has already said it will take her and ds (7 y o). It's v. good, 'outstanding' by Ofsted's standards (not that that's everything), v. nurturing etc.
There is no obvious feeder secondary school - the children from there go to schools in literally four different towns. So lots of choice potentially.
We are moving because of my work which is a four-year fixed term contract, so we know that we'll be moving again in 2016, when dd is just coming up to GCSEs. I might find a job in the same area - but then again, might not. Dh works full time too (in a v. central location in London, so geographically neutral in that we won't be moving because of his work). As we both work full time, boarding school is affordable, but it might be tricky to support the dc financially through university if we put all our finanical eggs in the boarding school basket. (I know this might make me sound barking mad to be talking about university when my dc are not yet into double digits, but there you go...)
So the reason we are thinking boarding school might be the way to go is that it'd guarantee continuity between living in Herts and wherever we are after that, and it'd hopefully give the dc a great childhood / education. I am pretty much in favour of the state system generally, and part of me would feel disloyal (I am state educated, and have no regrets or bad feelings about that). Dd is v. much in favour of boarding school, and ds is picking up on her enthusiasm. The local schools (in the 4 different towns) range from excellent to really not what I'd want, so it feels a bit of a lottery, and unfortunately for us because we are very much in between all those places, we could well come bottom of the list for the good schools.
So WWYD? And can you think of any boarding schools in the south east that you'd recommend?