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
It was the first sign that promises of a brighter education at the residential school masked a dark and forbidding future.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 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 the podcast, Ms. Walker investigated her father’s experience, and those of hundreds of other Indigenous children, in Canada’s residential school system.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 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 Foley, Kate M.
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