English Conversation One

* Well I can't understand how parents can do that - send their kids away from home for months at a time. It's cruel! That's it!

# I cannot see it in the same light. In fact , parents are supposed to give their children the best education they can. And boarding schools provide it.

* Rubbish! It's like sending them to jail! It's so unnatural ...with so many other children shut up together...

# Well, all kids complain about having to go to school. But they should be aware of problems that may arise so that they can face them and learn how to overcome them. And this already happens when they are together at school.

* What do you mean? That boarding schools prepare them to the real world? Nonsense. Kids there live in an artificial society , and when they encounter true problems in real life they are taken aback and don't know what to do...

# They might learn how to face menial problems , true, but these experiences help them build up their personality little by little... they meet other kids and learn how to deal with them everyday...

* They could learn that way at home , with their parents, their relatives , even neighbors ...but parents today are more concerned about leading a life of their own . Many children in the States , for example, are brought up by nannies when they come back home from boarding schools...

# Why is that? ...

* To my mind , that's snobbery!

# And how come they can rely on nannies? Do they get to somehow know them, before hiring them?

* People just trust them , and many a time run dangerous risks. Nannies in most areas are provided with a place and a car of their own, and they take the children to school everyday. Which proves once again parents today are either less responsible , or else too busy or too selfish to care about theirs children's education.

# And this bring us back to the beginning: boarding schools can do better than nannies...

* This is not the issue , J.B. . Neither boarding schools nor nannies can give kids the warmth and the protection they need to develop into self-assured, confident and respectful members of society.

# I entirely agree with you. Come to think of it, Do you have kids?

* Yes , I do.

# Where are they now?

* They are at the boarding school