Area student gets a taste of boarding school life

Charleston Gazette;  October 4, 2003 ;     575 words ......Virginia, which is an all-boys boarding school during the school year and co-...asked me, "Why don't you go to boarding school?" I began to think about the lack of consideration I gave boarding school and then started to wonder...

Boarding school is a form of child abuse, says psychotherapist

The Independent - London;  June 10, 2001 ;     442 words ......are sent away by their parents to boarding school risk severe psychological damage...Duffell, who has counselled former boarding school pupils, has now set up a support group. Boarding School Survivors (BSS) will run workshops...

Third U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Healing the boarding...

News From Indian Country;  July 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......07-12-2004 The trauma of boarding school runs deep in Indian Country...becoming aware of the effects of boarding school trauma," said Dr. Eulynda...Dine, currently performing boarding school healing project research...

Even at 13, Boarding School Can Be Just the Thing

The Washington Post;  August 4, 2006 ;     688 words ......independent 13-year-old wants to go to boarding school in the United States because she's...could live there only if she went to boarding school. She said okay and promised to come...I'll get used to it." I agreed to boarding school reluctantly, but my husband is devastated...

Hogwarts et al. prove boarding school doesn't equate with 'being sent...

The Christian Science Monitor;  September 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......didn't have the opportunity to attend boarding school, but I have talked to hundreds of...kids I talk to seem destined to go to boarding school. Some are poor kids who've been plucked...and often middle-class - who came to boarding school to escape a waiting-for-life-to-begin...

Boarding school now a home from home.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  October 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ......this really what life at boarding school is like? Karen Wilson finds...have never set foot in a boarding school and only have the fantastical...quite different. The modern boarding school is like a home from home...

Study reveals boarding school is springboard for success.(noteworthy news)

Black Issues in Higher Education;  August 12, 2004 ;     551 words ......gender. According to the research: * Boarding school students are more likely to achieve...positions throughout their careers. * Boarding school students are much less likely to watch...high school but into adulthood. * Boarding school students are also more philanthropic...

Urban boarding school in Milwaukee faces financial hurdles

Daily Reporter (Milwaukee);  June 30, 2008 ;     506 words ......Foundation begins building a Milwaukee boarding school that could cost $40 million, it must...districts will lose out to pay for the boarding school. And skepticism over the reliability...strong feelings for or against the boarding school. "They are asking, in my understanding...

Joys, frustrations of boarding school.(Life)

Cape Times (South Africa);  October 31, 2008 ;     356 words ......appeal both to those who didn't go to boarding school and those who did and are interested...of writing about South Africans at boarding school from 1910 to the 1990s, giving a comprehensive...Xhosa heritage at Healdtown Metho-dist Boarding School in the Eastern Cape in the 1930s...

When Boarding School Is Around the Corner From Home

The Washington Post;  May 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Seventeen-year-old Bernie Carey goes to boarding school. Now in his senior year at Episcopal...said the decision to send Bernie to boarding school wasn't easy. "My first reaction was...the virtual 24-hour supervision of a boarding school is an attractive alternative to having...

Study Reveals That Boarding School is Springboard for Success; New...

PR Newswire;  July 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......available in full upon request), * Boarding school students are more likely to achieve...positions throughout their careers. * Boarding school students are much less likely to watch...high school but into adulthood. * Boarding School students are also more philanthropic...

BOARDING SCHOOL PHOTOS, INFORMATION NEEDED

Targeted News Service;  January 8, 2007 ;     198 words ......Chickasaw language and culture through the boarding school era is scheduled for May, 2007. Event...family members to share memories of boarding school experiences as well as any photos...help in creating a list of Chickasaw boarding school students, a photo gallery of their...

Boarding school plans still alive Calvary Academy letter offers fall...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 17, 1996 ;     268 words ......indicates that plans for a controversial boarding school remain a goal. Calvary Academy Executive...said that if they couldn't open a boarding school, a second option would be to open...But indications are that plans for a boarding school are under way. Mayor David Kieck received...

Carlson's latest education idea: A boarding school.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 3, 1997 ;     302 words ......Legislature to provide funds to develop a boarding school for adolescents. The school is still...Carlson's concept of a residential boarding school would not be a correctional facility...part of a penalty or punishment. The boarding school also could be an alternative to foster...

Victim of bullies says charity has vital role to play ; Ruthlessly...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  September 23, 2008 ;     545 words ...Ruthlessly tormented at boarding school, Jane, which is not her real...works in Exeter. "If you are at boarding school there is no let up. You cannot...else in my family had been to boarding school and I felt deeply ashamed that...