Boarding & High Schools

Middle Eastern Parents always think twice before sending their children to a boarding school overseas. Everybody understands this feeling, we are immortal clingers to our children, even when they grew up, get married, have kids, or fall ill they are little in our eyes, and we cannot let go of them.

Excuse me for this preamble to explain why a market for overseas Boarding schools is not huge. However the subject is getting a lot of discussions these days as, a parent came to our office and said that he is surely taking his son overseas as they don’t teach his son art in the school. Another one said that they are not encouraging his daughter to do more sport? And so on. Of course this is not a shortcoming of our schools here. Its our weather, its too hot to make the students want to do extracurricular activities, like sports, drama, theatre, music, art, and 1001 other activities that builds up the personality of the students and allows him and her to join the world of work with confidence, and any university would also accept him or her in any programme as they had done it before, and not totally alien to them

A culture of cooperation, a culture of leadership, a culture of loving the environment and so on, is what we can learn by sending our kids to a boarding school. Of course girls and boys needn’t be in the same school or the same residence. And the amount of security and safety that is imposed on the students is so huge that they do not think of doing anything wrong. It will be a disgrace that a student does something wrong and in assembly his name is mentioned.

One has to be selective though. There is the IB schools, the American schools, and the British schools; there is also the Australian system, the New Zealand system and the Canadian system. Each with its advantages and each have differing prices. Also most of these systems are 13 years in total barring the American and the Canadian schools, as the students do 12 years of schooling. The length is not a plus or a negative, it’s a system that these countries had accepted and had been generating successful students since the time of dawn.