residential school

American  

[rez-i-den-shuhl skool, rez-i-den-shuhl skool] / ˌrɛz ɪˈdɛn ʃəl ˌskul, ˈrɛz ɪˌdɛn ʃəl ˈskul /

noun

1. a boarding school, especially one for delinquent or disabled children or youth.

   They recommended placing our daughter in a residential school for troubled teens.

2. (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.

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residential school British  

noun

1. (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements

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Etymology

Origin of residential school

First recorded in 1875–80

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residential school

“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

Numerous Native Canadians and Native Americans have also reached the NHL ranks, from Fred Sasakamoose — forced into a residential school at age 7 — debuting with Chicago in 1953, to Stanwood’s own T.J.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

When Simon Lawrence was eight he was sent to a residential school miles away from home.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

In this way there is no break in the family relation and the child does not grow indifferent to home ties, as so often happens when he is sent to a residential school.

From Five Lectures on Blindness by Kate M. Foley

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