Boarding Schools.

[Deeba1234]

Re: Boarding Schools.

@inspiron

If there was a choice between - school down the road which had kids of the same age hanging out on street corners and knife crime and boarding school if your child was bright enough to get a scholarship, what would the choice be?

**Having been to both state school and private school, I much preferred and appreciated my time at private school and can really see some great advantages.
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My brother also went to both private and state, and chose to go to a state college for A levels ( although one which is high on the leader board) and he preferred state.

I just really don’t know what I think about boarding.

I went to private school all thru my childhood but chose to go to state for A-levels as well.. My parents gave us the choice at that age of where we wanted to go and stupidly my decision was based on where my friends were going..

For me the main advantage of private school were the class sizes.. I was** never** in a class of more than 12 or 13 (some lessons there were only 8 or 9 of us) so we were always given loads of attention and it would have been hard to fall by the wayside.. When I switched to state the class sizes were double that and it was strange not having that extra time and attention.. For that reason I would tend to choose private over state (but there are always exceptions)..

I’d prefer not to have my kids boarding (even just weekly) but if I thought they would genuinely benefit and the other schools around us weren’t as good then yeah, I would go for it..