reform school

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The actor stars alongside Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson in a film that follows the weary employees and difficult students of an English reform school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Among them is Steve, the headteacher of a reform school in 1996, battling the emotions and behaviour of the teenage boys living there as well as his own personal demons.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

Olsen: There’s a whole other element to the story where we’re meeting one of the boys as an adult having survived the reform school.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024

If I wasn’t convincing, I’d be sent off to a reform school with people like Billy Deel, and Mr. Becker would have the satisfaction of knowing he’d been right all along not to trust me.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls