Private School to Boarding School

CanadaDad
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:40:53 +0000

I appreciate all of the feedback. Part of this likely comes from the typical “Canadian inferiority complex”, in that if it’s Canadian it can’t be as good as what you may get in the US. With that in mind, my wife and I are lucky enough to have been able to send our kids to private school from a young age and if they want to be able to take advantage of the boarding school opportunity we want to give it to them. For us the cost calculus is not completely relevant because we will be paying the tuition for private school in Canada or in the US one way or another. We have our doubts about the public school facilities, opportunities for extra-curriculars and overall competence of the teachers, so we know private school is the right call.

@ChoatieMom - I understand your point on being homogeneously American, but do believe that getting different view points from students from Korea, Saudi Arabia, Manhattan, small town Mississippi are all valuable and that is not available to us at this point.

I also take your point of exposure to diversity in more ways than one.

Luckily we are still a little ways out from decision time, but fact gathering is important. From looking at Boardingschoolreview it really does seem like there is a great deal of variance between the schools, so coming up with a list of 10 or so potentials seems somewhat difficult.