Twenty Thousand Dollars and The Six Million Dollar Man.


Hope you have been keeping well.  While I was growing up in boarding school, we talked a lot about a movie called the Six Million Dollar Man. I had the T-shirt my dad bought for me with his picture but I never watched the movie. One of my dear childhood friends i lived with at the school had watched it. Till now i remember her, that T shirt and the place i spent seven of my early years away from home.  Beyond the usual preteen girls-groups and rivalry that frequently ends in the verbal attack and ostracism of the usually-loud and spontaneous girls by others in schools, my boarding school experience was characterized by listening to the stories, tall stories and oral versions of movies by other little girls away from home. The Six Million Dollar man, the Sound of Music, Makula Ga Kulabako. Most of these  movies I later watched when i was much grown up. On the whole,  apart from the loneliness, hunger, sadness and fear that ruled my life, it was not too bad. Apart from the beatings and...at the end of the day, no one to tell, none to even ask; what happened at school today? , it was not too bad.  Maybe boarding schools are not all that bad?

 Last week my usual resolve against boarding schools wavered when i heard of a great school in Kenya where teenagers are well looked after; eat well, sleep well and study well. In addition,  breathalysers are used at the beginning of term as well as sniffer dogs to check the trunks of returning students (what does that say about current dangers in boarding schools I say?).  I was sorely tempted but then i thought more about it.

The school sounded good but in addition to the usual issues I hold against the boarding school system, the tuition expense rose to the tune of 10 thousand dollars a year per child. With two children, that would be a minimum of  20,000 dollars a year. Not counting the usual other things that one spends on at home. I guess that is way out of my league. Anyway since i hate boarding school and i dont want to pay someone else 20,000 dollars a year to fulfill my own responsibilities, I will still choose to keep away from boarding schools.

Will let you know if my mind changes,

Till then,

Keep your child with You and  Out of Boarding School.

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