subject: Find Co Education Boarding School In India [print this page] Boarding schools house students who stay in hostels and pursue their studies. Across the length and breadth of India are numerous boarding or residential schools where children live away from families and share facilities with peers.
Such schools provide food and lodging for students as an option for out-station candidates or sometimes as a compulsory offering in order to deliver holistic education encompassing extra-curricular and co-curricular activities, after school hours.
The environment in boarding schools encourages outdoor activities as watching TV is prohibited in most schools. It is a boon to parents as extra coaching and tuitions are taken care of within a safe boundary and students need not travel long distances to avail tuitions and coaching for competitive exams.
In cases where parents are not sufficiently educated but well to do and where both parents are working in demanding professions, sending children to boarding schools is the optimum solution. Families desirous to pursue good education but living in villages and towns with no such facility also opt for boarding schools. Children in their adolescent age are considered troubled as they do not follow strict guidelines laid out by parents. In such cases also boarding schools are the answer.
Co-educational boarding schools are better as boys and girls will learn to respect each other and be friendly without shyness and not be overwhelmed later when studying in professional co-educational colleges. Students learn to live independently away from pampering parents and grandparents under the guidance of wardens. They learn to care for their clothes and belongings.
Boarding schools boast of best infrastructural facilities, strict and disciplined environment and optimum care. The campuses have medical facilities, auditoriums to screen movies occasionally, swimming pools, gyms, race tracks, tennis courts, yoga sessions, well lit classrooms with less strength of students and clean mess facilities serving international food besides dishes from all over India.
The structured schedules do wonders for children who follow with difficulty in the beginning but fall into place sooner or later. Counselors in schools also lend psychological help to students suffering from depression and low self-esteem besides recommending active sports as a way to give vent to frustrations leading to better academic achievement and confidence.
Although legacy boarding schools still hog the limelight for making leaders in industry, civil and defense services the new age co-educational boarding schools distributed across India serve the purpose of delivering a holistic education quite successfully.
