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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here w/ the cousins who all attended boarding school in England at a young age.

A word of caution: if your kids are Americans (like my cousins), they might have trouble fitting in to an upper-class British boarding school. The social scene, etc. is so different from here, even the private schools. [/quote]

NP with a lot of English family over there and nieces and nephews there. (None in boarding schools but all with excellent educations.)

This PP is right. Your kids will stand out a mile. This argument might make your DH say, "All the more reason to send them as early as possible so they'll fit in," but don't accept that, OP. You also will have little money left for college because boarding school will suck it all up (and colleges in the UK are no longer free like they once were so don't let DH get away with "they can go to college there for nothing.")

Is your DH saying the kids can only get a "real" education if they go to boarding school in Britain? Does he have issues with specifics of education here (or with what he IMAGINES is "education here")? Does he have some notion that the kids will be "soft" and unprepared for life if they live at home until college age? What is behind this idea? If he only has a vague "it was good for ME so it's right for them too" idea, that's ridiculously self-centered and ignorant and he needs to learn about what's available where you live right now. Does he plan to uproot the entire family back to Britain when the oldest child goes off to board at age eight--or would the family stay in the US and the kid(s) be sent abroad?

If he's just making noises that's one thing. But if he's serious, you and he have to have a serious discussion now. Don't wait until older kid is seven and dad starts telling you he's gotten the paperwork for some school. This would be a potentially marriage-damaging issue if my own English DH insisted on it. [/quote]

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