BOARDER OR DAY-GIRL ?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
have read with great interest the article by Mabel Howat, and the letter from E. Hawes on the question of day or boarding schools for girls. It has always seemed a very difficult problem for me ; there is so much to be said for and against both sides. Mabel Howat has suggested that the. day school and E. Hawes that the boarding-school is the better plan of education for girls—/ think that half and half is best, I mean weekly boarding.
If you weekly board it is possible to get the best out of both worlds. You have, what I consider all the merits of boarding- school, the joys of living a community life for a short time, the continuity which enables you to get really inside school life—instead of starting again every morning, and you also get a much better chance of real intimacy with other children of your own age.
But you also get the week-end as the period of rest after an exciting and tiring week, and as the time for a little solitude which, as Mabel Howat points out, is so necessary for " we girls." In this way as well you can keep in touch with the home life and not feel that you are missing many sorrows or joys.
I have heard a good deal about what boarding-school life is like from different people, and though I have never been a full time boarder I never wish to be. I have been to a day- school, and I am now a weekly boarder, and know that for me the weekly boarding is much the most satisfactory.—Yours
truly, SUSAN Coons
The Court Lodge, Chelsfield, Kent. (aged 14).
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