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

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 was a single mother raising her only child, committed to providing me with the life she was not lucky enough to have – boarding school, quality education," he said.

From BBC • May 1, 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

Tearfully Esther sent him off to an expensive boarding school where Ernesto became the terror of his teachers and fellow pupils.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke