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Originally Posted by lauraC
cool back on topic :-)
Personally although I really don't want to get into parental choices and be over critical, there are always personal circumstances where it's maybe the better choice to send your child away to board at school but I certainly don't think it's mollycoddling to want to have your young children at home with you and give them all the emotional love and support they need when they are children, it might force a child to become an adult much earlier than is necessary but I don't think that's a particularly good thing
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Given that I'll hazard a wild guess here, you weren't privately educated, nor have you put any children through boarding school, so you aren't in any real position to offer any real basis upon which to make such statements - you simply haven't had the experience that some on this thread actually have. the word 'force' doesn't come into it. I had a choice, to stay with grandparents in Scotland and attend the local school, go to a school in Switzerland (called T.A.S.I.S.) or the choice of boarding schools in England, I chose Catsfield Place. I chose England as it allowed me to nip back home on exeat weekends to see my friends back 'home'. Did you notice those words, "I chose".
Besides which. A discussion on the pros /cons of boarding schools, now that wasn't why you started this thread, is it.