boarding school

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Even his working-class credentials came under attack; the scion of a well-heeled family, Platner attended boarding school and got $200,000 from his dad to buy a house.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026

His parents shipped him off to boarding school in Ireland.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

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

Wallangarra was the fourteenth different boarding school he’d visited in the three days since he’d landed, and they were all beginning to blur together.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti