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A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
Crane Union High School , a public (state supported) school with boarding students due to the school district's vastness; The Delphian School ; Harper School; Huntington School; Mitchell School; Mount Bachelor Academy ; New Leaf Academy ; Oregon Episcopal School (Raleigh Hills) Oregon School for the Deaf; Paisley School
A Council of Dolls is a historical fiction novel based on the author Mona Susan Power's family history with boarding schools. Three generations of Dakota women grapple with the effects of being forced to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where they are stripped of their cultural identity and suffer abuse.
House banners at a public school in Australia. In some boarding schools, a primary purpose of the house system is to provide pastoral care to the students.Separated from parents for long periods, children will rely on the school to fulfil their socio-emotional needs, in addition to meeting their basic physical care.
Barton Academy, the New England boarding school where most of The Holdovers, the funny, touching, and overall brilliant new film by Alexander Payne, takes place, isn’t a real place—but it’s ...
The Chapin School. The school's motto is Fortiter et Recte (Bravely and Rightly). The wheel on the school's seal was chosen by the school's founder because it is the symbol for Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the patron saint of philosophers, thinkers, and educated women. The students leave assembly in a wheel pattern.
Founded in 1898 and located on a leafy campus in the Berkshires, Miss Hall’s School is one of the first girls’ boarding schools in New England. It’s for girls grades 9 through 12 and for ...