Wednesday night, sending your child, aged 8 to boarding school, do tell me about it as i won't be able to watch!!!

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I couldn't even watch the trailer for it without wanting to weep!

here she is

Blinking cameras too invasive....

My dh went to boarding school at 7 and did not really like it.

Would never send mine.

How can the mothers send them when they don't want? How can the dad's force them?

they have to have tricks to get them through it.

I wish they would stop calling it "home sickness". So bloody trite. Their worlds have been turned upside down.

I don't really like the houseparents. They seem too tough. The nurse seemed nice though.

I knew quite a few children of oil execs and employees who boarded, but it was always at secondary level because it was a situation where teh parents were working a country with no American, British or European school.

No its not mainly military. Lots of families with money send their children to boarding school especially at 11 or 13.

it's really no wonder our country is run by cold hearted people is it

Which is exactly what we're doing, kids see less of their dad (although more than these poor little mites) and unfortunately DH is probably leaving as a result.

Aw they cant call them for a week? My DD would not cope with this at all and nor would I at that age! I chose my nurse training post locally so I wouldn't be too far away from home. Hoping DD might be made of stronger stuff than me

bloody hell those staff are emotionally illiterate.
feel really sad for those children.

that housemother creature looks like a right battleaxe.

the dad should move around with his job until the child is 13 and old enough to board

Break her out, Lottie's mum! Break her out!

I've jsut been talking to dh about this (and my mum rang in the break). If DH was in the forces, I would stay at home with the children rather than send them to board.

Maybe my take on it is tainted by the fact that my father (non-forces) was sent to prep school at 8. I love him dearly, but I can see how it affected him, his relationship with his family and so on.

Gosh the weekly parent visits must be hard on those whose parents can't come .

OMG did you see how desperate April was to hug a woman she barely knows- lottie's mum.

And the twins!!!! How can the mum's not be there

the not calling home for a week thing is because it makes the honesickness worse

poor kid wanted a hug from friends mum even though she didn't know her
that says a lot

Do military families get help with the fees? this place looks £££'s whatever the rights and wrongs it seems fabulously equipped staffed etc.

My father hated his irish catholic 1950's boarding school and refuses to discuss it. His brothers all ran away multiple times. His sister was sent to board with the nuns across the road from their house. He is very much in the "no kid of mine club"

Dp was sent to boarding school in England from Hong Kong for sixth form and while understanding the reasons behind the decision I think he still resents his parents for it

yes, the forces subsidise fees at boarding school