Boarding School
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
August 27, 2008 11:16am CST
I attended a run of the mill government run comprehensive school but have wondered about people who's parents sent them to boarding school. I have never known anyone who went to such a school. I wonder how it has effected people who went to boarding school and if ever they felt some sort of rejection from their parents. Even if I had all the money in the world I could never send my children away from their home to be educated, I would sooner get a home tutor or move closer to a private school. I also wonder why parents feel the need to send their children away for their education as there must be some reason.
Did you attend a boarding school? How did it make you feel? Did it effect your relationship with your parents? Did you resent your parents for sending you away?
2 responses
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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27 Aug 08
Meet one product of the great British Public School system Humbug. I boarded and let's just say I didn't enjoy it that much and I'll tell you somewhere else what happened to me if you want. However, I went because I wanted to go. Nobody made me. All my friends went, mostly to different schools, and so I toddled along too. I felt no rejection from my parents at all. In fact it probably brought us closer together. It was when I moved back home that problems started. I said that I'd never send a child of mine but our daughter wanted to go to a boarding school for her sixth form and loved every second of it. In fact we drove past it the other day and she said that she wished that she was still there! We are as close as it can be.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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27 Aug 08
Hi there p1kef1sh
I had a feeling you might have gone to boarding school, I don't know why, just call it women's intuition or something. I know I have a pretty naive view of boarding schools and maybe I have believed the reputation that seems to proceed them so that is why I thought I would find out from the horses mouth so to speak.
Thanks for your input p1kef1sh much apprcetiated!! 
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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27 Aug 08
There are children that go to school because their parent's believe that it is the thing to do, or did it themselves. Increasingly though, children are going because their parents genuinely believe that they will get a better education. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. My memories are mostly negative ones, but that does not mean that it was all bad. Far from it. The best affordable schools I think are the state boarding schools. They are a cut above many of the standard state schools (and quite a few public ones too) and have a very good academic record. My daughter went to one in Somerset. It is so good, that many of the sixth formers come there from neighbouring private schools.
@iyah10 (4115)
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27 Aug 08
I remember before when one of my Auntie in the province got to travel and be in the City to take her course as a Nursing and she went in to the Boarding school for the Girls and I think it is not the matter of rejection between parents and the child because my Auntie keep on coming to the Boarding School to visit her daughter and the sisters are also disciplinarian for them for they always have a curfew and they will have report on their School schedule and they always check on their visitors and if it is a man they only accept it in the Living Room of the boarding Room......
