If you had LOTS OF money ....

[poppydoppy]

Would it be unreasonable to consider sending your child to this school www.rosey.ch/index.html

IMO yes.

I think lots of MN's will object on the ground they have a "chocolate break".

(Sorry couldn't help it with all the packed lunches talk!)

I know someone who went there. Didn't give it a massively good write-up, actually (though that was a very long time ago). Letters home asking parents not to land helicopters on the front lawn, apparently.

No not at all, why would it be?

Could you imagine the faff your housekeeper would have keeping that uniform clean

If its right for you and your child why not?
Personally it gives me the shivers

Why wouldn't it? Am I missing something?

You would have to have LOTS of money just to afford the Vanish Crystal White for cleaning the uniform.

Why would it give you the shivers?

Actually I take that back, I think it's just that photo. The children look too perfect.
The school looks amazing

The Chalet school never had boys! Disgraceful, I'm writing to Miss Annesley immediately to complain.

Just shy of £54,000 a year to board. My DS would hate it. No time for computer games or slobbing in front of the TV

PMSL!!!! If we move to GVA, that's one of our options!!!! Yes, really.

Poppy are you over there? Would be nice to have a "normal" MN friend when I'm out there :)

Sorry sugarhut, I'm just dreaming

Only if I could go there too!

a girl from my year at school left to go there. She liked the skiing but not much else.

I don't think my dd would go for it.

But then she is 18. She probably would have got expelled/deported anyway for making loud accusations about stealing Jewish gold about the Swiss etc.

I'd imagine that even if your family was pretty wealthy by most people's standards it wouldn't take much to feel like the 'poor kid' in a school like that.

I doubt many of the kids in those photos are the genuine article- the actual intake is likely to be so high kidnap-risk that they don't permit public dissemination of photos...

No, becasue I object to fee paying schools in principle.
I'd also miss my children if they were at boarding school. I'd like them to maybe board somewhere for 2 nights a week though - for a bit of quiet time :)

How much are the fees?

I wouldn't.

I was thinking about this recently. Why do people send their kids to such expensive schools? Is it so they are among the elite in society? What happens when a child who goes to a school like that ends up just being average?

Also - people who scrimp and save to send their kids to expensive schools - doesn't that just make your child one of the poorest kids in the school and how do you know you can commit to it for years and years? What if half way through you end up having to take your child out? And are you expecting them to go on and earn lots of money as a result of their education?

just some things going through my mind.

Just seen it, yes I would.

Duelling - the girl I know who went left the highest achieving / academically rigorous / super selective UK school to go there. Such a bizarre move for a very clever girl. It was a social / contacts thing pure adn simple, unless there was some sort of security / kidnap issue that we weren't aware of at the time -her father was super high profile / front page of papers daily at the time (business not showbiz / sport) and I guess they're used to that sort of thing more than a normal UK boarding school