Reasons why boarding schools are better than day schools in Kenya

  

Date Posted: 4/12/2013 8:46:15 AM

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Reasons why boarding schools are better than day schools in Kenya

There are some people who love day schools more than boarding schools and others the opposite of this. As for me, I would prefer to learn in a boarding school than to learn in a day school. I actually got a chance to experience both. My primary school was a day school and my secondary school was a boarding school. Therefore, I got the chance to clearly assess the two kinds of schools and made my final conclusion, boarding schools are a lot better than day schools. The following are the reasons why I believe that boarding schools are better than day schools.

1) Having no distraction from phones and the television.
In almost every boarding school in Kenya, no student is allowed to carry a phone to school. Those who do are usually severely punished if not expelled from the school. The students in boarding schools thus have a better learning environment even at their free time since they are not distracted by their phones. However, in day schools, all the students might not be allowed to carry phones to school, but when they get home, they will use so much of their time on the phones such that they might not have any more time left to do their homework. The television is also another electrical gadget that will distract day scholars from their studies away from school.

2) Spending too much time traveling.
Day scholars spend so much time traveling. In Kenya, there are usually very big traffic jams at the time when most day schools finish their day’s studies. This is also the case when the students are going to school early in the morning. This means that most day scholars waste so much time traveling instead of using this time to

study like the students in boarding schools do.

3) Wastage of energy.
The day scholars travel a lot to and from school. Therefore, the day scholars pay less attention to what they are being taught during lessons thus making them to perform worse than the students in boarding schools.

4) Thinking about life outside school.
Since the day scholars spend so much time outside school, which is usually twelve hours every day, they tend to think a lot about other things which they might have seen or heard outside school, even more than the students who attend boarding schools. This means that their minds are not set or ready to learn thus making them not to concentrate on their studies. As for the students in boarding schools, they spend each day at school thus their minds are mostly occupied with education and what they learn at school. This makes them to concentrate more on their studies since their thoughts are mostly based on school work.

5) Learning to survive.
The students attending boarding schools are forced to learn various things which they might not have known how to do on their own before. These things include washing their own clothes, washing the classrooms, dealing with bullies and other people, taking care of their personal items and many others. This makes them to become mature and responsible people by the time they finish doing their final exams in these schools. As for the day scholars, some of them have house-helps who wash their clothes for them and do almost everything for them at home.

The best kind of school to learn in is a boarding school. However, there are some students who still manage to learn in a day school and excel in their exams. However, I believe that such students would excel even more if they had been learning in a boarding school.

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