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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.
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 ...
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.
Deerfield Academy (often called Deerfield or DA) is an independent college-preparatory boarding and day school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a member of the Eight Schools Association and the Ten Schools Admission Organization.
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 Menominee Indian boarding school, also known as Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial school, was an American Indian boarding school built on the Menominee Indian reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1883. It operated until 1952. In 1899 the school consisted of 170 students and 5 staff. [1]
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 ...