Why do you send your kids to boarding school?

itcannotbetrue
Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:43:33 +0000

What an interesting thread–and even more interesting is that its lifespan is six months long. . .

As someone who now has a daughter going through the Boarding School admission process, just two short months after DS started his freshman year at BS, I can attest to the questions and judgements tossed at us by both friends and family. What is really interesting is the gender bias toward our decision to allow our daughter to apply to schools across the country–as if to say, “Well, we know MILITARY SCHOOL is fine for boys, but WHAT?!? Why your GIRL?”
The irony is our daughter has been on many schools’ interest lists longer than her older brother–by her own choice!

As seen in this thread, families have a multitude of reasons why they choose boarding school. We have many reasons to send our children here in the state of CA, with one of the lowest per-student LPS spending rates in the nation. Statistics like these make a very good case for us alone. To “Opposite Judge”, I believe that families that choose to put their kids into classrooms of 40-50 students with overwhelmed, unionized teachers who do not even have the time (or inclination?) to read English essays is akin to child abuse (I’ve only had to take that very low road once in a particularly heated and disrespectful discussion re: BS). But even with that said, that is not why we chose BS path.

We chose BS because we want our children to really LEARN, to continue to LOVE learning (and not become cynical/disrespectful because of “the system”), and to NOT become all about the grade, the score, the number of APs taken and passed and the EC resume.

As someone who teaches at the college level, I have seen far too much of this LPS/parochial/private day school outcome.

After all, isn’t life too short to enter the rat race at 14?