Boarding school
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 A residential school, where the students are housed on-site (the school provides board and lodging as well as education), sometimes involuntarily, typically at a pre-collegiate level.
"[…] a pan-Indian movement based on the successes of the Black Power Movement […] had its roots [in] the 1870-1933 Native American boarding school experiences of their parents and grandparents. It was in these boarding schools where Native language, culture and ceremony would be beaten out of the Native children in order to 'Kill the Indian and Save the Child'."
- 2 a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught wordnet
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More examples"[…] a pan-Indian movement based on the successes of the Black Power Movement […] had its roots [in] the 1870-1933 Native American boarding school experiences of their parents and grandparents. It was in these boarding schools where Native language, culture and ceremony would be beaten out of the Native children in order to 'Kill the Indian and Save the Child'."