Comments on: Boarding schools… https://expatsincebirth.com/2019/01/25/boarding-schools/ a blog by a multilingual lifelong expat/international, linguist, researcher, speaker, mother of three, living in the Netherlands and writing about raising children with multiple languages, multiculturalism, parenting abroad, international life... Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:57:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: D K Powell https://expatsincebirth.com/2019/01/25/boarding-schools/#comment-35150 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:57:18 +0000 http://expatsincebirth.com/?p=7578#comment-35150 I think it all comes down to culture and right approach Ute. I, like you, couldn’t bear to send my children to boarding school though had we stayed in Bangladesh we would have had no choice for our daughter’s A levels. I too have met plenty who suffered from a boarding school education in the UK at least.

But then, I’ve known plenty suffer from school education in general in exactly the same ways. And as a home schooler parent for two years I’ve seen the advantages of not sending your kids off even for day school! Indeed, many students I teach now privately are home schooled because of awful school experiences.

But all these things can work too. Boarding, state schooling, home schooling. If it’s part of your culture and your family know how to make it work then it will work. I know just as many adults who loved their boarding school upbringing and wouldn’t have changed it for the world yet have a wonderful relationship with their parents. Horses for courses, as the English say…

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