According to story in yesterday’s Independent, over 1,200 British international schools were opened last year worldwide, most noticeably in Asia. I did a bit of poking around, and it looks like there are five British schools in the U.S. (including one I knew about here in Boston), with plans to open 15 more over the next few years.
I have a few friends who’ve graduated from international schools abroad. They’re all amazingly bright people … multilingual, culturally savvy, and inquisitive. I don’t know if I’d go so far to send my son to a British school here in the U.S., as cool as an idea that is, but we’ve thought about sending him to the German International School in nearby Allston once he finishes his elementary program at our local Montessori school. We speak some German at home, the we being my husband and the two au pairs we’ve had. Being that I’m painfully monolingual and because I’m the resident Anglophile, I stick with English.
I’m curious to research what the growth is in American international schools compared to British. Do British schools get a better reception abroad given how unpopular the U.S. is right now in the world? If you were or are living abroad, would you/do you send your child to an international school? What’s your opinion of this type of education?
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