Nowadays, many people send their children to boarding schools so that they can have time to work. Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?

One of the parental practices that

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become more common in recent years is sending descendants to boarding

schools

. The main reason for

this

is allocating more time to work with the absence of

children

at home. There

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of benefits as well as drawbacks to be considered,

although

as far as I am concerned, boarding

schools

do more harm in general. On the one hand, boarding

schools

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to have positive impacts on the lives of both

parents

and

children

alike.

Firstly

, not having to take care of kids at home will allow

parents

to focus on their professional life better;

hence

, they can earn more income which benefits the entire family.

Secondly

, at boarding

schools

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pupils are taught to

descipline

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discipline

their lifestyle. Unlike regular

schools

where most of the focus is on the students' academic learning, at boarding

schools

much wider range of skills are learnt.

Thirdly

, young people have the chance to deal with more difficult challenges in life by staying away from the comfort of family and hometown which will teach them vital life lessons before their adolescence.

On the other hand

, there are undeniable personal and parental issues that could arise from sending

children

to study away from home.

First

of all, kids, especially below twelve years old, need sufficient attention and intimacy; something

that is

hard to find in any boarding school. No matter how

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and amiable the school teachers and staff are, they can never replace the role

parents

play in raising

children

.

Besides

, all the stress and difficulties students have to face at boarding

schools

may result in trauma in their adulthood.

Lastly

, many

children

do not comprehend the reason behind being sent off to another city to study

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and only seeing their family for short holidays.

Accordingly

,

such

misunderstandings might affect the relationship between

parents

and

children

. To summarize, many

parents

nowadays are deciding to

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their

children

in boarding

schools

in order to have more free time to spend on their careers. In my opinion, while both

parents

and descendants gain certain advantages from

this

decision, the negative implications it could have on the mental health of the

children

as well as family unity

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are far

greated

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greater

than the benefits.