residential school
Americannoun
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a boarding school, especially one for delinquent or disabled children or youth.
They recommended placing our daughter in a residential school for troubled teens.
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(formerly) one of a network of boarding schools in Canada for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students, typically founded and operated by a church or religious order and eventually receiving partial or full funding by the federal government.
noun
Etymology
Origin of residential school
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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She and her husband Morgan, 42, are now facing the difficult decision of whether to send Evie to a residential school.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
In Canada, we call it the residential school system.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
"In the indigenous community, we're very familiar with residential school history. It isn't news to us," Goulet, the Cree-Métis filmmaker, told Salon in a recent phone interview.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023
The issue of the Vatican’s ethnographic collection came into the spotlight last year, when Indigenous groups from Canada came to the Vatican to receive an apology from Pope Francis for Canada’s church-run residential school system.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023
But the child in the residential school knows little of all this, has little occasion to know.
From Five Lectures on Blindness by Foley, Kate M.
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