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The boarding schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children.
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Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
Or that Wednesday is set at a boarding school for outcasts, monsters, and practitioners of magic—shades of Harry Potter.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
Housed in a former 16th-century boarding school, just three miles from Florence's historic downtown, Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Collection, is the quintessential Tuscan hillside retreat.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2024
Those acts landed the teen in numerous boarding schools.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2024
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Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
Or that Wednesday is set at a boarding school for outcasts, monsters, and practitioners of magic—shades of Harry Potter.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
Housed in a former 16th-century boarding school, just three miles from Florence's historic downtown, Collegio alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Collection, is the quintessential Tuscan hillside retreat.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2024
Those acts landed the teen in numerous boarding schools.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarding%20school. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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