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residential school
[ rez-i-den-shuhl skool, rez-i-den-shuhl skool ]
noun
- a boarding school, especially one for delinquent or disabled children or youth:
They recommended placing our daughter in a residential school for troubled teens.
- (formerly) one of a network of boarding schools in Canada for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students, typically founded and operated by a church or religious order and eventually receiving partial or full funding by the federal government. Compare hostel school ( def 1 ), Indian boarding school ( def ).
residential school
noun
- (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of residential school1
Example Sentences
Former pupils at a residential school caring for vulnerable young people have said they were ignored when reporting claims of abuse.
“Sugarcane” is a sobering account of the abuses that Indigenous children suffered at a government-funded residential school in Canada that was run by the Catholic Church.
When news broke three years ago about the discovery of more than 200 potential unmarked graves on the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, Emily Kassie immediately felt “gut-pulled” to the story, which rippled through an entire network of Catholic-run institutions across North America.
An inquiry into alleged historical abuse at a former residential school has been declared a “critical incident” by Police Scotland.
Ten new arrests have been made in connection with allegations of historical abuse at a residential school in North Ayrshire, BBC Scotland News has learned.
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