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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from England where boarding was once very common and is increasingly less so - many of the famous boarding schools are now filled with foreign students (which is obviously fine but just different to the previous student body) and some have shut down.
For older kids I can see how it could be great, for the right personality. I have often thought that American summer camps, where kids go away for 2 months, aren't that dissimilar - that is equivalent to a boarding school term in England. 
For younger kids, assuming they have a happy home life, it just seems a bit sad. I once read an article by a writer who had boarded since around 7 years old and he said that he was well-looked after and teachers were kind, but still, he lived for most of the year in a place where nobody loved him. That is what I now mainly think of when I think of boarding school - that however nice the school, it means your child spends every day without the people who love him/her. [/quote]

Well, but we don't have boarding schools here for kids under 14. Totally different scenario.

(There are maybe a handful in the country, usually populated by kids whose parents live somewhere without good educational choices.)[/quote]

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