kleenmum:

Is it wise to send boys to boarding secondary schools some say it makes them togher than they should be,please advice

kleenmum:

Is it wise to send boys to boarding secondary schools some say it makes them togher than they should be,please advice

horny4u:

Boys should be tough infact with serious discipline as long as they are not below 10yrs . I love those army schools. No need for sissys,
@Kleenmum
No woman no matter how great a mum she is , can teach her son how to be a MAN only other MEN will teach him this, load him with sound moral ethics and send him out there to be a MAN.
You cannot go soft on him , and he can not remain your little boy forever.
Its for his own good , He will fight and find his path, thats what secondary school is for, He will come back an Alfa balanced male and a pride to you.

Just my opinion

P.s Lets eradicate all MTN credit seeking men who are looking for women to feed them. Send them all to the army training ground. ( not your son o just the trend out there)

maclatunji:

It is abdication of your responsibility as a parent to yank your children to boarding school for their secondary education. Hence, as far as I am concerned gender is not really the point here. Granted, some people have little choice but they should be willing to admit that they are not giving their children the best upbringing they should have.

donspony:

Nowt bad in sending boys to boarding schools but make sure it is a good one and private at that.

And about army schools, don't think its such a good idea. I'm an ex commando BTW. I wouldn't send even my enemy's son there.

Nuff said!

Dokai:

Could u pls explain y its not a good idea

donspony:

Command may look a rosy prospect from the outside but it sure ain't. I entered as a 6-7A's student but by SS1, I was struggling with even 2 A's.

Hostels were in a dilapidated state, so bad parents were barred from ever seeing them.No windows or least window frames were as good as it got. I never in my four years stay there used a wc, a pit latrine with structural problems  having a huge gaping hole in the middle that might cave in whilst doing the shitt.

Saturday general labour day would put prisoners with hard labour terms to shame, we had to be awake by 5-6am, clean our hostels then proceed to phase 2 till as long as it took to cut huge swathes of land even a tractor would refuse.  Normally finished 11:30-1:00 pm.

What about water scarcity, so bad we hoarded buckets of water inside our lockers. Even drinking water sometimes was a miracle abi na Somalia we dey?

Concerning discipline, it was koboko or pankere. The former especially the brand new erect ones were capable of inflicting multiple wounds to your body in one fell stroke. Was a normal thing to have blood stained uniforms or day wears no questions asked. Got to a point where the pain became oblivious and I just stood there like a log of wood while the soldiers dished out the strokes even though at the end I knew my back would be an untidy mass of wounds,blisters and blood.
Soldiers drilling us and making us frog jump at silly o clock in the morning till dawn.

Long story short, by the fourth year from a model student. After repeated beatings, I became the opposite,  jumped the fence, evaded roll calls and labour, made forged fake exits letters with my typewriter, going buka restaurants (west side) after classes, cooking amongst others. In all I became most wanted with a mandate to be locked up in a guard room (mini prison )  when caught. All this were enough to get me expelled though I was never caught. Eventually got withdrawn immediately after my dad slipped through the net to see the state of our hostel and got transferred to a day command.

Got many more things but just leave it at that for now.
By all means, train your children up disciplined and tough but not to an institution run worst than a refugee camp.  But right now I detest public boarding schools.

Dokai:

I quite understand. I went to a boarding school myself. Well with what u said i passed thru similar things ecxept drilling by soldiers. Though i didnt enjoy it at the time, i still believe it did more good than bad to me.
All said, how good are the teachers there and how long or recent did u pass out from there?
I went to a fed govt coll and i a have been thinking when the time comes on sendin them to a command school

exboyprince:

I went to a boardin skool, military skool to b precise & it made me who i am today. It prepared me for the challenges of dis world, i owe it all to Nigerian Military School zaria. Discipline, courage, braveness, independ[b]ent, high mindedness etc, if u want your boy to become a real man, u shld send him to a gud boardin house where he has to learn to survive in d den of hungry lions. But if u have a stubborn boy & u send him to a boardin house wit d intention of changin him, dat will b your worst mistake becos dey end up becomin worse, my opinion. [/b]