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If I was a poor parent in a neighborhood with no other options, I would send my kid to the boarding school. Kids would be sent home for holidays, and weekends
by TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
If I was a poor parent in a neighborhood with no other options, I would send my kid to the boarding school.
Kids would be sent home for holidays, and weekends even (if the parents want to pick them up).
I think some parents would leap at the chance to have the week free, so they can work. Childcare is a big problem in the inner city.
People I know would be taken care of by grandparents, old neighbors, trusted older kids, etc., while their mothers would work (in the case when father was absent).
Might as well trust an institution.
- PakG1 12y agoAbsolutely. I've lived for 3+ years in Shenzhen in China. Every Sunday night, you'd see a ton of school kids lining up at the subway and bus stations lugging suitcases to go spend the week at school. They'd have dorms and everything. If this is a social norm in an entire city with millions of residents (albeit with a different culture), why wouldn't that be a possibility in other cities in the US too (albeit with different cultures)?