Just down the road from Douai, in Oxfordshire, another boarding school, Shiplake College, offers an example of a successful attempt to market boarding to a new generation of parents.

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Whereas most boarding schools used to try and exclude parents from seeing their children altogether during term, they are now encouraged to visit when they can.

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But he was such a poor student that his parents sent him to a strict boarding school, where the students were assigned cadet drills.

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But most parents do not want cut-price boarding schools in remote parts of the country.

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Prosecutor Nicolas Gerasimidis said Mr Jolleys falsely claimed the Continuing Education Allowance, which allows armed forces personnel to receive up to 90% of the costs of boarding school fees so that childrens' education is not disrupted by parents' overseas postings.

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Mr. Lipner trusted and looked up to Mr. Eisemann for guidance because his parents were in California, and they had sent him to boarding school at the age of 15.

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In the midst of an on-going recession, parents are still investing in independent school education (private day and boarding schools) for their children in grades K-12.

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Parents now have a choice of full-time, weekly or flexible boarding.

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In the 1980s, Ko's parents returned to Korea and sent their son to Phillips Exeter, an exclusive New Hampshire boarding school.

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