If you could would you send your kids to a rich boarding school

Living in England my parents didn't need to send me overseas away to a private school. We are not exactly short of them here. I did go to a boarding school, not sure about the rich bit though. I got bullied a lot in the early years, On my first weekend I got knocked out with a torch by a man who I saw on TV just a few weeks ago. He is a new age traveller now! I learnt an awful lot but I swore that I would never put my own children through it. But when my daughter was 16, and at a State school, she said that she wanted to go to a boarding school for her last two years before going to university. So we sent her and, if I am brutally honest, it has been the making of her. She has much more confidence, has a huge circle of friends (Including the ones from the state school here) and has had no trouble moving into shared accommodation at the university. We did miss her, but she was only 90 minutes away so it wasn't too difficult to see her, when she had time to see us that is! I completely understand why people don't want to send their children away, but if it is good for the child that it what matters. Parents feelings are very secondary in my book.

No absolutely not! Although it is for some families it wouldn't be for mine even if I could afford it. I wouldn't wan't my child that far away from me and only get to see it occasionally on holidays and special events. Sorry couldn't do it. I don't understand how others can do that maybe it is because they lead a busy life and always have other things to do besides attend to the children I don't know. I'm not putting those mothers down for choosing things above their children, because that is the way it works best for them or how they themselves were raised, or how they think their child will succeed better away form home. But it is the children we have to think about in this. A parent should always be able to be there for the child and not thousands of miles away. Kids need their parents not some other person whom doesn't know the child. So for me it is close to home and that I see them daily nbo matter how much they sometimes jump on your last nerve or don't mind..lol

I would not send my kids over seas for an education... the very thought is too frightening to me. I did, however, send my son to a boarding school several hours away from home. It was to be his junior year but they pushed him ahead to senior. I wish we would have sent him sooner as we are having problems with his transcript for university. IT was very difficult to leave him there - though we knew the school and its teachers and administration very well and had the utmost trust in them, still he was not here - with me (in control) maybe it will make it easier a transition when he does go off to college. but somehow I doubt it.

I would never want to send my kids awa y to go to school, I would miss them way to much. I too want them to have a good education so I send them to a private school like the one I went to but never anywhere that was out of state when I would hardly ever see them.

hi rose.i think i would want to keep my children close to me as well.if it was a special school ,say for example a performing arts school and i know that is what my child would want to do ,then yes i would send them overseas.i know i would miss them terribly if they wanted to go,but if it were to benifit them in the long run,i would be all for it.cheers sue

Hi Rose..not to sure about this one. My sisters kids all went to a boarding school at one time or another,but it dramatically unsettled them. Once they were all back as family they were much happier. They missed their parents badly,and I beleive they missed their brothers and sisters to !!

I could never send my children away to a boarding school. Summer is coming and they are wanting to go to a week long summer camp and I just can't even do that. I love my children very much, I don't sleep good at night whenever they are not home and are away spending the night with their aunt. I'd rather have them safe and sound, asleep in their own beds.

It was the practice and maybe it still is for rich people from overseas to send their children to boarding schools abroad. Also in Canada there are some elite schools such as Upper Canada College, Ashbury College and one in Quebec, the name escapes me at the moment. These schools are prep schools for university. The purpose of these schools is to keep the privileged among themselves, so they can form connections and friendships that last into their adult lives where each of them can help, contribute and marry within the same circles. This is also why fairy tales such as the movie Pretty Woman and other movies rarely happen in real life. A Demarais or Eaton boy will most always fall in love and marry a person from the same class. But we like to think classes no longer exist. Anyway to get back to the topic, I would not send my kids to boarding school at a young age. I think they would have felt unloved.

Well I wouldn't send them overseas for the eduction. There are plenty of boarding schools here in the states as well as over seas. I'd have no problem sending them to one that wasn't too far away. One were I could visit them easily or they could visit me if needed. I'd want to know what is happening in my child's life and if they are cross country it makes it difficult. Also a lot would depend on the child, if they wanted to go, if I thought they would benefit from it, that sort of thing. Boarding school isn't for everyone but for some it can be wonderful.

I'm with you. I'm sure they would get a great education going to a rich boarding school, but what kind of family appreciation would they have? I would miss my kids way to much. I love having my kids home every night.

Me too, I want my kids to be at home every night. If I would to send them school in abroad then I believe I might as well move in that place. SO taht we would be together in one house. I dont want my kids to live in a boarding house no matter how good it is. I believe that our home is the best place to live when they are in the growing and learning stage of life. Time will come that they have to go out on their own and that would be the time that they could choose where to live.

I dont have kids but if I did, I wouldn't send them away. I would want them home with my every night, where I could spend time with them and know that they were safe and sound. I think quality time is very important, especially these days.

Well, i don't think i can ever do that to myself or my child... if i am rich... then i will send my daughter to the best school and relocate near it even if i have to... what is the use of having all that money if families will be torn apart because of work or education... i live in a culture that has close family ties... so i don't even think we have boarding schools in my country...

I personally wouldn't I like my children to be around me, my eldest is away at University and thats hard enough, but she is home for Easter at the weekend so really looking forward to that. I suppose for stability if was with a forces husband for example and we were posted overseas and the children were at a critical stage of their education I would consider them boarding rather than the upheaval of yet another school. In fact for the last year of my younger daughters education when I moved because of situation and circumstances that couldn't be altered she stayed with her father for that year to finish school but she is home with me again now that she has finished and started work. I would never send them because I had enough money too though. I had children so I could be with them as much as I possibly can. Ellie :D