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Recent Examples of boarding school
The 12-acre site sits in present-day Fairway — formerly 2,000 acres near Turner — and served as a boarding school that housed students from 22 tribes, including the Shawnee Tribe, which required them to perform manual labor and assimilate into white Christian Culture.
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Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025
The Japanese-language drama, currently seeking additional funding and festival screenings, explores the aftermath of a suicide at a Christian girls’ boarding school.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Joe Tierney Director: Kat Whalen Logline: Having pushed his mother to the point of last resort, rebellious teenager Joe is abducted from his bed and delivered to a therapeutic boarding school with controversial methods.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
This 1966 French story of a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who strike up a romance after meeting at their children's boarding school was an awards darling, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes the year it was released (just like Parasite).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025
The Japanese-language drama, currently seeking additional funding and festival screenings, explores the aftermath of a suicide at a Christian girls’ boarding school.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Joe Tierney Director: Kat Whalen Logline: Having pushed his mother to the point of last resort, rebellious teenager Joe is abducted from his bed and delivered to a therapeutic boarding school with controversial methods.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
This 1966 French story of a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who strike up a romance after meeting at their children's boarding school was an awards darling, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes the year it was released (just like Parasite).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarding school
- prep school
- preparatory school
- high school
- public school
- elementary school
- common school
- secondary school
- school
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Starting with 1998’s Rushmore, his sophomore effort, set at a prep school, Anderson began keeping track of his own props, costumes and other crucial objects.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Apr. 2025
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The future king is currently studying at co-educational prep school Lambrook in the Berkshire countryside.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Apr. 2025
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Mauldin allegedly committed these offenses while a teacher at Nathaniel Greene Academy, a Christian, K-12 college preparatory school in Siloam, approximately 80 miles east of Atlanta.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Catholic college preparatory school is hoping the addition of new national corporate partners and an enhanced game day experience at Santa Ana Stadium will ease pressure in its ongoing fundraising efforts.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Prior to The Bee, Smith covered high school sports at the Citrus Heights Sentinel.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Georgia High School Association, the state’s governing body for high school sports, passed a rule the same year mandating students’ participation in athletics will be determined by their original birth certificate.—
Brooke Migdon,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
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The bill also would divert $50 million from other state tax revenues and use them to maintain and improve public school facilities, aiming to provide an alternative to property tax levies that typically fund these repairs and updates.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2025
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The event — staged by Orlando Health and the Orlando Sports Foundation, which raises money to find cures for cancer — showcased top seniors from 15 Orange County public schools.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Bear in mind that my knowledge of and exposure to computers before this was minimal, and my exposure to PCs had been nearly nil—I'd played Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe in elementary school, and the few computers that were in my classrooms or computer labs at the time were Macs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
4 Apr. 2025
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Students at Big Bear Valley elementary schools made the final decision on the new names from a list of 30 names, per tradition.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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With one sentence, vouchers would become constitutional in Kentucky: The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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Starmer was commenting as Netflix agreed a deal to make Adolescence available to all secondary schools across the UK via the Into Film+ streaming service.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, the United States’ educational improvements slowed markedly as secondary schools struggled to boost performance and college tuition marched steadily higher.—
Matthew J. Slaughter,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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In the months since, the settlement has faced a wave of objections from athletes, schools and other stakeholders.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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After being sent to an oppressive new school, outsider Conor Lawlor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) finds refuge in making music with his friends, all with the goal of impressing model Raphina (Lucy Boynton).—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarding%20school. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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