OK Boarding School - this will make me Mrs Unpopular

[MsTownmouse]

AIBU for having sent my DS to boarding school. I have thought it through & I do love him & think it is the right thing

Just interested as a lot of people think that Boarding School and loving your child are mutually exclusive

pip pip

Well we're half way through October now, so either YABU, or you are oddly only now thinking it through in a weird sort of belated way, or YAAT.

No.

It's not something I would EVER choose (living with an ex-boardie, and having a father who boarded from 6) but of course not. I know children who have asked to board from the early teens, and they enjoyed it.

But if you're asking on here, I would ask how sure you really are that it's the right thing.

WTF is pip pip?

Pip pip???? WTF?

lol Geordie

My father sent my brother to boarding school from 14-17 and it was for perfectly good reasons. His mother had to be sectioned due to severe mental illness and the poor lad hadnt been looked after . It was for him to have a secure, peaceful environment with sheets on the bed and meals at the table. He was able to come home every weekend when his dad could care for him.
So there can be good reasons.
pip pip

Frankly, after the behaviour I have endured this weekend, Borstal would be fine.

yabu

toodles

I have a bigger problem with public schooling than boarding

i loved my boarding school. My parents loved me and we are still close. we are undecided for our children, husband didnt go. (Time to plan, first in utero). I say lucky them!

Boarding school?
Jolly good show, what?

pip pip. yes yes, lovely for the uppers
Cunto is what is used by the minors

Do remember to 'engage' when he comes back for half term.

You are going to have to give some more information, including the meaning of Pip Pip . I've heard of Toodle Pip meaning 'Goodbye' but not Pip Pip.

sometimesi would

toodle ooo.

I threatened ds1 (aged 9) with military boarding school this week
It's been a tough week
I have no idea if such a thing even exists
I am quite jealous of my friends ds who is at a public school, so she can put him into board any night she wants. She does pay quite a lot for that option obviously

I never thought I would. I have a child with SN and it could have been an option for him if we didnt have a suitable school in our area. We are lucky, lots of people are not.

TBH its something so far out of my frame (field?) of reference its hard for me to comment. I only know about Mallory Towers etc.

I worked with a man who told me he was sent to a School for the Sons of Clergy at 5 yrs and I burst into tears (I was pg with DD at the time). He was only a bit older than me so he wouldnt even be 50 now!

Boarding school once they hit 14 seems a very pleasing prospect though. I am not looking forward to 3 more teens raging about the place..

I prefer "what ho" to pip pip

'Pip pip, Angela' I said. And I meant it to sting.

(Jeeves and Wooster, can't remember the story name.)

Toodle pip.

military boarding school

In case you wanted the threat to involve leaving a prospectus lying around :o

Depends how old he is really and whether he had a choice.
We are a military family and my dds are 5 and 3 atm. I love them dearly and we have great fun, but the time will come that we will move every two years so it would be something we would think about.
I certainly wouldn't consider it before 10/11 for my youngest as I would want them both to go at the same time, sending 1 and not the other isn't good imo. I think the one leaving home could feel very pushed out.
tOLK if only it was that straight forward! For a military family the opportunity to get a private education while only paying 10% of the fees - bursary is quite an opportunity to pass up. I am hoping to send both dds to private school and boarding will merely be an extension of this. I would hope to choose somewhere that we can take them home every weekend. They also have fantastic opportunities to join so many activities and learn instruments not offered in state schools, in the teenage years they give structure and discipline instead of hanging out with friends unsupervised who knows where after school. Now correct me if I am wrong but most teenagers don't listen to their parents to much, hopefully they will listen to their teachers when they have to do prep at night.
My friends have sent their dcs and they love it!

Are you Elizabeth Hurley?