1.
Less cost: The first reason why day schools are
better than boarding schools is because they are
less expensive. Findings have shown that day
schools are less exorbitant than boarding schools
because students concentrate only on their tuition
rather paying for accommodation and feeding fees
in the school, and even extending it to the purchase
of provisions. This advantage is very beneficial to
the parents in third world countries where
resources are limited and cost of living is high,
because it limits their spending.
2. Faster response to emergencies: Another
important reason why day schools are better than
boarding schools is because there is effective and
rapid response to emergencies for students that
attend day schools. It is natural to human beings
that in life, there must be some occasions of
unprepared happenings. This can come in the form
of injurious accidents, sicknesses, etc. Day schools
give students immediate access to their parents in
the case of any of the above happenings, for proper
attention and quick recovery which the boarding
schools in most cases do not give. In boarding
environment, school authorities tend to have
formal and less cordial relationships with their
students, and this goes on to affect the students
even in emergency situation. Also, in recent times,
boarding school facilities have shown not to usually
be in good conditions or are poorly equipped, one
of which could be their clinics.
3. Evaluation and guidance: Thirdly, there is the
presence of parental evaluation and guidance due to the
fact that the students return to their parents after school
activities, this gives parents ample opportunity to
evaluate and cross-check their children’s school work,
making sure that their wards do assimilate what is being
taught in school. Parents also help in assisting the
students in their assignments of which no one will in
boarding schools.
6. The ability to optimize concentration: Day
schools offer students the opportunity to focus and
concentrate on their studies more than boarding
schools will ever grant. This is as a result of the fact
that since the students are with their parents after
school, the distraction of what to eat or how little
the food will be is set aside.
7. The ability to practice/experiment what is
learnt in school: Day schools offer students
wider opportunities to practice what has been
taught in school. For instance, in colleges or
secondary schools where Biology is taught, some
plants would be mentioned. A day student will have
the wider chances of finding varieties of plants,
thereby having firsthand knowledge about what are
being taught, more than a boarder who is confined
in a limited environment.
8. The ability to have a balanced social
life: Day schools as we know are usually a
combination of both sexes, that is, the male and the
female child. This combination goes a long way in
shaping the lives of the students; it helps the
different genders in familiarizing with their
differences thus creating a harmonious wider
society in the future as against boarding schools
where only one gender is confined in an
environment at the exclusion of the other.
Conclusively, day schools have proven over the
years to be more beneficial to students than
boarding schools as mentioned above and also in
the aspect of the adequate care given by parents
and other inclusive trainings offered by parents to
their children in their formative years.
Incidents
Ambala boarding school incident: In
connection with the case of sexual abuses and bad
touches by an accused hostel warden Peter Gaitley of a
boarding school in , the cops have not even recorded
the statements of the survivor students so far.
Dehradun murder cover: On March 28, the Indian
Express reported that a boarding school on the outskirts
of Dehradun allegedly tried to cover-up the murder of a
class VII student by burying his body on the grounds of
its campus.
The 12-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by
two of his seniors on the afternoon of March 10 at
the Children Home Academy in Bhogpur.
School authorities, however, tried to cover-up the
murder by saying his death was due to food poisoning.
Shamim Mallik
In February 2016, a class 8 student of a private boarding
school in West Bengal died allegedly after he was beaten to
death by his teacher. The 14-year-old's family says he was
"punished" for meeting his father at the hostel gate without
seeking permission Shamim Mallik, 14, had joined the Al
Islamia Mission Boarding School at Burdwan in Murshidabad
district, about 200 km from Kolkata, on January 22.