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All 3 families were military families, and all 3 chose to send their girls to Highfield for educational consistency. Which I don't disagree with, but it just broke my heart seeing them struggle so hard to adjust to life without their parents!

But on the flip side,it must be just as heart breaking to wrench your kids away from their friends every 3 months?!

I think RAFwife said it pretty well.sometimes putting your children into boarding school is just trying to make the best of a bad situation!!
I cant comment on how it would affect the children either way as I have never experienced it,but whatever choices parents make for their children,there is always going to be someone who disagrees!!is there really a 'right' or 'wrong' way?! X

Tbh, I don't agree with boarding school at any age and for any reason. It's selfish, IMO, to put yourself and your career before your child. But then, as I've said before, I have never and will never understand people who live to work.

I live for my family.

Agree.

But surely you need a good career to provide for your family?? Would you put your careere before your family and live off hardly anything??

Like I said boarding school isnt my parenting choice. But I don't think parents are selfish for doing it I am sure they have the childs best intentions at heart

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There are other careers, the rest of us get by very well without being in the military...

Yes you do need a good job to provide for your family but I do not agree with putting an 8 year old child or any child in boarding school just so you can go to work and have a career, I dont know how anyone can do it TBH. No one on their death bed turns around and says I wish I spent more time at the office ...

meh i dunno.
i work because if i dont i will lose everything and my son wont even have a house to live in.
irrelevant but maybe not so much.
i wouldnt ever put him in a boarding school but im lucky to have great in laws.

Personally I couldn't do it. I had it recorded and watched it last night and it broke my heart when I saw them so upset. However I do think it is a better option for forces families. It's better to keep them in one stable place rather than have them moving schools all the time

I was moved around quite alot as a child my parents did the best they could they wernt rich so had to make sacrafices, me and my mum moved to norfolk when dad went and got a HND in graphic design .. then we moved back with him .. then had move again as he got a job .. then again as he got a better job etc.

I dont begrudge him because he made something of his life .. came from a family of no hopers basically but he got of his arse and did something.

But having to move homes and schools just as you where settled really was not a nice experience for me.

I think id have been much better in a boarding school growing up with girls and having them as friends for life.

There are however kids at boarding school who's parents just throw money at it to get them out from under their feet so they can live it up - that is a sad reality and i feel sorry for those children

But then there are those who's parents want the best for them i.e being in the military and moving around constantly might not be the best thing and boarding school is an option.