11 Facts About Boarding school

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Boarding school is a school where children live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area.

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One example of regulations covered within the National Boarding school Standards are those for the minimum floor area or living space required for each student and other aspects of basic facilities.

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Classic British boarding school became highly popular during the colonial expansion of the British Empire.

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The oldest junior boarding school is the Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, established in 1866.

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In Canada, the largest independent boarding school is Columbia International College, with an enrollment of 1, 700 students from all over the world.

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In 2015, a Swiss boarding school named A+ World Academy was established on the Norwegian Tall Ship Fullriggeren Sørlandet.

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Elite boarding school students are brought up with the assumption that they are meant to control society.

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The distinct and hierarchical nature of socialization in boarding school culture becomes very obvious in the manner students sit together and form cliques, especially in the refectory, or dining hall.

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10.

Term boarding school syndrome was coined by psychotherapist Joy Schaverien in 2011.

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Boarding school has described some of these individuals to exhibit behaviors such as a sense of detachment from any relationships, workaholism, compulsive behavior, and a penchant to control.

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