Private School to Boarding School

CanadaDad
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:46:31 +0000

For those parents who have children at one-strike policy schools how do you find it? Do you get the sense that there are a lot of kids being told to go home for reasons that you wouldn’t even discipline your kids for? Or do you find it refreshing that there is such a focus on behaviour and things like alcohol issues, smoking and a lot of “parenting” type concerns are being handled separately from you so you don’t have to be the bad guy.

When making your choices did you often find that you and your kids were on the same page about where they wanted to be? I want my son to make the final decision about where he wants to be, whether that means stay where he is, or head off somewhere else, but at the same time, if I’m bearing the entire cost I think it’s reasonable that he only apply to places that I’m comfortable with. Do people have a view on this? I think it’s reasonable, and if that is the way we go about it, I feel like we should really only be visiting places at the outset that I’m ok sending my kid to, and then only applying to those places that we’ve visited that I’ve had a better sense of and still feel comfortable with. The idea being that anywhere he applies he should go to because I’ve already had my say.