boarding school

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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

McLean's world changed when he moved to boarding school in Chester aged 11.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

"It's like a state-sponsored boarding school where they systematically foster football players."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

In Middletown: The fictional Welton Academy in Vermont, setting of “Dead Poets Society,” is actually St. Andrew’s School, a private boarding school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Peter had been a student at a boarding school in Denmark.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston