Boarding high school is now an accepted education program in many developed countries in the US and Europe and is starting to become increasingly popular in less developed countries as India for example. The reason of this success is that many institutions see this program as very helpful to the parents of the students.

Some reasons why boarding high schools can be a good possibility for students in these modern times are the following ones. First of all there are no interruptions. In the boarding schools they make sure that there will be no interruptions during the study periods of the children. Also the risk that the students skip classes with their friends is being reduced to almost impossible.

Furthermore their can be a bad influence on your child from friends or classmates which is a big problem in traditional schools. Boarding highs school students are always being monitored and it is made sure that they can’t do this stupid things. Moreover they can focus on their study habits, have no traffic problems because they stay in school and everything is made easier for parents. They don’t have to make up schedules anymore for who has to be where and who can bring him.

I am not saying that boarding schools are the ideal place for every student and that you have to send your children to these schools. But I think can be a valuable option which is worth concidering.

Weekly boarding schools are starting to become very popular in India. This is a concept where students stay at the school for 24 hours during the week but go home during the weekends in order to be with their parents. The good thing about the concept is that students receive good education while they can spend quality time with their parents during the weekends.

The parents in India believe that giving their children more space can help them develop and become more independent. But feel the need to spend quality time with their children; this is why this solution seems to work perfectly for them. Furthermore the children seem to be happy. It seems to educate them discipline and flexibility at the same time. They have the advantages of boarding schools while they still can be at home to be with their family and friends and this combination seems to work in India.

Modern times ask for modern measures and so also boarding schools are following the matter. Where it was so easy to evaluate the schools a couple of years ago, nowadays there are 52 National Minimum Standards to be taken into account when judging them. The goal of these standards is to promote welfare of the children in boarding schools.  This can be a good help when searching for a good boarding school and this is the reason why I want to share some of the rules with you.

First of all there shouldn’t be any corporal punishment. Boarding schools cannot prevent children from ringing their parents or sending them a letter. Moreover they cannot deny medical or dental attention to the children, children cannot be fined over two third of their pocket money and there is a minimum distance between the dormitory and the beds that should be taken into account. Furthermore the school should have, and follow, an appropriate policy on responding to complaints from the children and their parents, schools have to provide a good range and choice of activities for the students after teaching time and each border should have one or more staff members to turn to when he or she has a problem.

But these new rules don’t change the fact that the number of children going to an elementary boarding school is lower than ever and according to the director of the Boarding Schools’ Association this has a lot to do with the way parents remember their past in these schools. According to her, boarding schools have to be twice as good as other schools nowadays.

So the schools are trying everything to change the lack of interest, but it seems that the prejudices towards boarding schools won’t be erased this easily.

Still not many people know the truth about boarding schools and since social media are starting to become so important in our daily lives, I thought it would be good to start a Facebook page called Boarding School Directory. On the fanpage, people will find more information about boarding schools and so know the truth.