Why do you send your kids to boarding school?

blue77skidoo
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:04:52 +0000

College preparedness is why I am looking at boarding school for my child. Although we are in a very good public school district the public school teachers in our state just teach to a test because that is all the state administrators are concerned about, test scores. Public school teachers have had their pay, benefits, pension and anything else cut that can be cut. Pretty depressing when you have a PHD or masters degree plus 60 credit hours. I just went to parent teacher conferences and teacher morale is incredibly low. I feel that the overwhelming majority of prep school teachers are very passionate about teaching and care deeply about student progress. Not to say some public school teachers are not passionate but some are just hanging on until retirement.