boarding school
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Platner for a short time attended The Hotchkiss School, a boarding school in Connecticut, but says he was soon kicked out for failing to attend class.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Imam Nahe'i, who teaches at a large Islamic boarding school, says that when he asked he found his fellow teachers "didn't understand what sexual violence was".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in November 1938, Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III went to a military boarding school in Tennessee, and then attended Brown University, but was expelled before graduating.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, and went to Barnard College in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
"Finally on the day we docked at Southampton, the very day before I was to start boarding school..."
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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