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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“Sugarcane” tells a story — many stories — happening everywhere in Canada, about what is being done, and still going unsaid, regarding the trauma inflicted on Indigenous people by the white-settled country’s residential school system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
When Simon Lawrence was eight he was sent to a residential school miles away from home.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2023
She’s more hopeful now that James has been accepted to a private residential school that specializes in students with autism.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 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 child in a residential school knows very little of life outside the buildings, knows little of the trials and struggles going on in its own home, perhaps.
From Five Lectures on Blindness by Kate M. Foley
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