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Article: All aboard: boarding schools are trying to broaden their base and diversify their student bodies.(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 12, 2001
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Most people don't know much about boarding schools, says Craig Thorn, who has taught English for 20 years at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., alma mater of President George W. Bush and his father. "A lot of people in our generation think of English boarding schools -- all-white, all-boy places where gentlemen are trained," says Thorn, an editor of Second Home: Life in a Boarding School, a collection of essays by boarding-school students and faculty. "The easy stereotype is to say a boarding school is a rich school filled with rich people, but that's not the case."
Phillips is one of nearly 300 independent, accredited, nonprofit boarding schools in the nation. ...