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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