Posts Tagged ‘Boarding school’

Who are you, and what have you done with my son?

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

One of the most daunting things about sending our boy to boarding school was that, for the first six weeks, aside from handwritten letters, we weren’t allowed to have any contact with him. In the pre-email, pre-free calling era, this would have been fairly standard. Back in the day, boarding school parents didn’t have much choice Read more

Student violence in Tonga – closing boarding schools an option

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

The escalation in student violence is a major crisis for the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, its General Secretary Rev Dr Tevita Havea says, and he is suggesting that closing the rival boarding schools of ‘Atele and Toloa for ten years might be a way forward for the schools and the country. He was commenting Read more