Parents Start Their Own Teen Boarding School
Teen help can be obtained from many, many sources, both privately funded or programs initiated by the government or non-profits. Troubled teen boarding schools, military schools and other private institutions are also available if your troubled teen needs a more comprehensive approach to their problems. Yet with all of those choices, some parents still can’t find the appropriate school or program for their kids.
Have you ever felt like getting like minded parents together and starting your own private boarding school? Parents in a small British Columbia town were unhappy with the choices available for their teens and decided to take matters into their own hands.
Relevant Tags:military schools, parent groups, private boarding school, private school education, school parents, teen help, troubled teen boarding schools“We felt it was necessary to start our own private school for many of the same reasons that other parent groups start a school, we could not find a suitable position in a suitable school for our children. We were a group of families that broke away from an established school that offered a great education for our children, but the board approached the parents for more money, and we felt that the money would not dealt with wisely.
We lost any faith we had in the business side of the school.
We had had a taste of what a private school education meant for our children, and we would not give that up. In the process, most parents explored the alternatives that were in the area, and we determined that we were not comfortable with them. We have as one of our founding tenets to be grass roots, down to earth, etc. even though we have a pretty sophisticated parent group–(company presidents, lawyers, doctor etc). In our process, we found that we moved from being consumers of an educational product to being a community.”
