1. The boarding school system is significantly more expensive. It is estimated that it costs about $114 per child per term in the boarding system but only $16 in the day setting.
2. The boarding schools are overfilled and their resources stretched, making them rife for outbreaks of diseases and pests like bedbugs and lice.
3. Kids with learning disabilities like Dyslexia and behavioral problems like ADHD, get lost among the hundreds of other kids. They do not receive the personalized care they need and go through the system without any benefits.
4. Teenagers, at a very important part of their development, grow up with very minimal input from their parents on issues of character, responsibility, independence, and morals. They learn more from their peers than from responsible adults. These kids need more time with their parents at those impressionable ages.
5. At a time when kids are actively growing, they have to live in boarding houses where nutrition is suboptimal stunting growth. Long periods of frank starvation may play a role in the future incidence of diabetes.
6. The healthcare afforded to these kids is not always the best and there have been instances of sick children dying due to negligence.
7. The negative psychological impact on these kids has never been measured but the separation does lead to anxiety, depression and psychological trauma in some wards. These conditions can have long-lasting negative sequelae.
8. Stories of abuse and bullying of all types are underreported but could be rampant and have long-term pathologic effects.
9. There is the incidence of drug and alcohol use that could have long-term effects.
10. It is quite difficult for parents to actively monitor the education their wards are receiving and many are unable to intervene if need be.