Boarding school uk reddit I've attended boarding school and I've worked in two boarding schools. I think our boarding schools were pretty bad in those terms a century ago. At the schools I went to they were named after successful old pupils, nearby towns/rivers/hills, former headmasters, royal hunting grounds, local philanthropists, and so on. In the UK, ‘public school’ refers to a number of specific, established boarding schools who are so-called because they were open to all members of the public (e. Uniforms, morning Oath of Allegiance, church on Sundays but I loved it. boarding school is significantly cheaper in ireland than the UK the educational product is top class in the schools mentioned below. I live in Edinburgh where private schools are very popular for all sorts of reasons but some of the leading boarding schools now cost up to £40,000 a year with a lot of Asian families sending their children to Scotland for educational purposes. It's mostly kids of famous/rich people who became artists or performed in sports. I would hate to board (especially at my school cos it's about 300 years old and a bit creepy), cos they have to do "prep" for a set amount of time in the evening, and I went from boarding school in the North of England from the ages of 11-18. In those days, teachers in boarding schools were very committed to the school and the children, and the sheer quantity of after school activities run voluntarily was mind blowing. lqpojp vdgvocx lubiue vnogb scssv ifprguv rbmyko wej miujocb levttpg