Is boarding school beneficial to children?

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With the popularity of Harry Potter novels the number of children applying to boarding schools has risen, many of them hoping to find their own version of Hogwarts. However others have interpreted this trend as a reaction to longer working hours and the break up of more marriages. The boarding schools of fiction are presented as one long midnight feast with pillow fights forging firm friendships. However their opponents claim the reality is extended homesickness and a lack of individual attention. Modern boarding schools have done much to shed the image of the mass dormitories with 40 or more beds in one room, some going as far as providing en-suite bathrooms to private rooms. Similarly they make great claims for their academic merit, particularly in light of the increase of exams, coursework and university entrance requirements facing children wishing to succeed in the modern world. Alongside these more conventional schools, two types of boarding schools have also become more prevalent recently. Sports academies and stage schools seek to cater for children with particular interests and talents, while so-called ‘troubled-teens’ have been able to turn to a range of religious or wilderness schools to solve their problematic behaviour. what do u say??????????