Punita Shah is an educational specialist. After working as a teacher with The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai for more than a decade, she founded Punita Shah Education Services, which provides educational advisory services, specialising in Boarding School selection and admissions abroad. She also organises specialised summer programmes and seasonal camps abroad.
For those of you familiar with my previous articles in ParentEdge, this article of mine is going to be a little different from the earlier ones. In this piece, rather than discussing about boarding schools abroad, I am going to give some information on the different types of boarding schools across India.
Boarding schools in India – the change
I was introduced to the current set of Indian boarding schools in a rather coincidental manner. I was travelling home from my workplace when I came across a huge hoarding advertising ‘Prestigious Schools Exhibition’ and it mentioned that the participants are International Residential Schools. As this is my area of expertise I was immediately intrigued, and decided to spend some time visiting this exhibition.
When you think of Indian boarding schools, there used to be a social perception that they were located mainly in hill stations and attended by those whose home life lacked the capacity to maintain proper structure and discipline in terms of academics. This perception has markedly changed, with parents choosing boarding schools in the hope that their children will have better education than what is available for them in their local schools, and not out of a lack of capacity at home. This trend is reflected in the fact that boarding schools are offering multiple boards. They are no longer only located in remote hill stations, so that the child does not have to be too far away from home. They are closer to cities so children can have the Boarding School experience Monday through Friday and then come home for the weekend thus getting the best of both their worlds ‘the home’ and ‘the school’.
Boarding school options in various cities
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