Singer Bien Baraza of Sauti Sol was recently on social media to address a rather unexpected topic about life in boarding schools.
According to the singer, taking away your child or children to a boarding school creates a huge gap between the parent and the child. He said parents end up not knowing their kids in the long run because of this which can be very dangerous.
“I went to boarding school in class 5. I was 10 years old. I know often children don’t know what they want but I was pretty sure I hated being there. At the time my parents thought boarding schools were an end goal to good results and grooming responsible citizens. Even during the holidays they left for work and came back when I was asleep. Now I’m all grown up and I realize how much it robbed me of a relationship with my parents. Especially my dad because I was always a mama’s boy. He’s always surprised by some of my habits and abilities,” said the singer.
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Baraza added that boarding is one of the reasons why parents are usually shocked to hear their kids are behind strikes and other things because they barely know them.
“I bet some of the parents of the kids involved in high school arson incidents are often surprised by their kids. But if you’re only allowed to see them once in three months and sporadically during the holidays that’s the result. At a time when you need to be with them the most, you leave it to a teacher and peer pressure to raise them for you. I’m not saying kids in day schools are less likely to be involved in some crazy stuff but at least you can see them and nip the craziness in the bud before it gets out of hand. I am a full anti boarding activist.” he added.
