do ur kids school in a boarding school?
By Ifamous
@ifa225 (14468)
Indonesia
July 3, 2012 8:05pm CST
I want to put one of my kids in aboarding school
what is the plus and minus of this school?
If u have any experience about this i really love to hear..
5 responses
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
10 Jul 12
HI!
You could put one of your kids in a boarding school, provided s/he is willing to stay there. Forcefully, admitting a kid in a boarding school could be counter-productive.
Best of luck.
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
5 Jul 12
Hi Ifa. nice to read your topic about boarding school. My Kids are not study at school yet because they are still at early age. but I want share my though about it. I spent my high school at modern boarding school for four years. I think there is many benefit if learning there. We have many positif activities. More close with God and learning how to sosialize with many friends who comes from different region or culture live background. So, we can learn about small community and it can be basic for real life next.
But, now, when I thinking about my kids, maybe i have to think twice to put them there. It's not about I don't agree with parent who choose boarding school for their kids but please mind about the age of your kids if you want put them there. let we thinking how 10-12 years old growth. They will face the teenager step and i think in that fase, parent is the prime friend for trough that age. Boarding school have many students and surely the teachers will share their attention for all of them well and can't be close one by one like us as their parent.
Sorry if I write it by bad english. LOL.
@ifa225 (14468)
• Indonesia
10 Jul 12
Hi Zizho
nice to have you here
i am thinking to put her in boarding school as early a possible so she might have a strong morality and personality
i am kind of worry to see how wild the world is cause i can't watch her all the time
thanks a lot for sharing your experience in boarding school
@jazel_juan (15745)
• Philippines
4 Jul 12
We actually do not have such schools here i guess... as far as i know. We only have private schools and they can be quite expensive but the quality is good.
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
4 Jul 12
Good:
-they learn faster and quicker to make compromises, adapt to people, share, obey the school's rules
-they can be monitored (it's not like if you parents go out for dinner, they can sneak off to go anywhere without permission)
-studies are monitored better
Bad:
-I do believe the kid & parent bond is stronger if they see each other day by day
-they can't talk about their problems in person to the parent
-they can't manage their time as freely as they would like (for example, there are rules of like after x hour, you can't leave the dorm/school... which can be overwhelming, as some places even have hours when you have to study... like you have only 2 free hours to go out to do all your errands, like official things, buying food, buying needed school supplies, buying gifts for bdays... let alone going to the hairdresser etc.)
-money shortage can't be dealth with that quickly, no matter why money shortage happens






