I am writing to share my today �s experience at school just to help me unwind a little bit. I �m working in one of the secondary boarding schools where kids live on campus. Unfortunately staying at school every day makes them feel somewhat edgy at times and today it ended up in fighting and ... it was scary... Of course the fight was stopped as soon as possible but it made all the other children and teachers anxious and uncomfortable. 

As a child I went to a regular school and I �m not entirely sure about the benefits of boarding schools in terms of a child �s social and emotional development. Some kids in our school get to see their parents only  ONCE IN A SEMESTER! Most of them go home only once in fortnight. What a big moral pressure for the kids, don �t you think?  The children from our school come from really wealthy families, so I guess their parents could afford to take their kids home more often, ideally EVERY weekend. Some of our teachers say though, boarding schools help the kids to toughen up. 

I wonder what the other teachers think about  the pros and cons of boarding schools?