The choice to go to boarding school

spinelli372003 spin01 at aol.com
Wed Jul 7 14:34:31 UTC 2004


David wrote:   > I think that it is a very lucky parent who can 
afford to offer any 
> kind of choice to their child, whether boarding, day school or home 
> ed.  We could certainly not afford to send our children to anything 
> other than state schools and were not competent (or confident 
enough 
> of our ongoing sanity) to home-school.  Within the state system (in 
> England), there is theoretically some choice, but this is largely 
> illusory, as pretty well all parents in a given locality will 
favour 
> the same school (and policies put forward by the main parties here 
> to broaden choice will not affect this).
> 
> David

Now my turn :)  In the united states there are many many choices for 
schooling.  private, semi private, boarding, homeschooling and 
public.  the largest amount of children go to public school.  in most 
states the public school your child goes to is determined by boundry 
lines set by the city.  your child is bussed or walks.  you don't 
have a choice although in some cities you can petition for your child 
to go elsewhere.  not sure which states those are but do know that in 
the early 80's california was one of them. should you choose to send 
your child to a school not in your boundry the tuition cost can be 
big.  My children (except the youngest)  all went to private 
(catholic) gradeschools up till 8th grade.  When they hit highschool 
they were given the choice of continuing on with private (read big 
bucks here) school or going to the local public (read free here ) 
school.  My oldest son opted to stay in the private school system.  
He works his butt off 7 to 330 every day during the summer to help 
pay for it as it is a very expensive military college prep school.  
My next son has opted for the local public highschool.  There are 
many different choices at work here.  And many different 
considerations.  In the states the public school systems range from 
spectacular to abysmal.  I am scared for my sons education but am 
also absolutly sure that he will no do well in a school system he 
does not want to be in.  IE: the private college prep school.  
Sometimes the parents are just doing what they think is best and 
hoping for the best.  
Sherry <<off my soap box now but have had the private vs public 
debate with my family to many times to ignore lol>>





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