
If I had kids I wouldn't send them to a boarding school. It's just not right I guess, because the kids aren't in constant personal contact with their parents, and at such a young age, where they begin to detach from their parents anyway, the vital parent- child relationship just breaks up completely.
I guess, the reason for me saying this is because, the kids won't feel the need to answer to their parents any more. They'd probaby just do all the things their parents disapprove of.
However, having said that, I would send my kids to an Islamic School. I've been to one, and feel that my foundations have been strengthened to a degree Alahamdulillah. Fair enough you'll have the kids that mess about and fall in with the wrong crowd. But Alhamdulillah, I feel that I wouldn't be half the person I am today if I didn't go to one. For one thing, I probably wouldn't have had as much confidence in myself (But that's just my point of view!)
It depends on whether your parents provide you with a strong Islamic upbringing I guess, and not force it upon you, because i've seen in the cases where girls are forced to attend an Islamic School, they turn out worse than those who haven't attended one, and haven't had the upbringing, but perhaps I'm generalising?
Has anybody else here attended an Islamic School?
