But the scale of its recruitment in universities and Islamic boarding schools is unclear.
But most parents do not want cut-price boarding schools in remote parts of the country.
Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.
Even Europeans are now sending their children to English boarding schools in increasing numbers, mainly to learn the language.
Young Harold had a somewhat lonely childhood of summer camps and boarding schools.
They should have time to play poker, drive go-karts and climb trees, says Christian Heinrich, chairman of the Boarding Schools' Association.
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The Australian athletics team has been using Tonbridge School, one of the country's leading boys' boarding schools, as its training camp.
He was instead mentored by an uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and dispatched to a series of boarding schools in England, Germany and Scotland.
Anyway he indicates that many private boarding schools cost around 50 grand.
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The children of the exclusive club generally went to private academies and boarding schools and enjoyed a wealth daunting even by Greenwich standards.
Andrew had recently been accepted to The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, making this the first year YES will enroll students at boarding schools.
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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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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.
Educated at boarding schools (and later at Harvard, where he earned a master's), Mr. Mindel, 59, comes from a cultured, political family that hosted Eleanor Roosevelt in their New Jersey home.
He will stress that pupils attending boarding schools, such as his own prep school, Cumnor House in West Sussex, are encouraged to learn safely from their mistakes "rather than to repeat them".
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Teenagers in the village must either go to one of the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools (the nearest are in Oregon and southern California), or move in with family members in a larger city and go to public schools.
This is in marked contrast to how the Catholic Church, several Orthodox Jewish yeshivas, the Boy Scouts, and numerous boarding schools, public schools, orphanages, and other institutions have reacted when it became clear that male children were abused under their care.
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At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.
The town of Seaford, on the Sussex coast, used to be the capital of boarding prep schools.
So day-schools have thrived, and boarding has suffered accordingly.
Boarding is marketed as a lifestyle choice, and schools now have to provide a range of activities, amenities and creature comforts undreamed of by previous generations.
Ms. Black, who attended private schools while growing up in Chicago, sent her children to private boarding school in Connecticut.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families said it was hoped that a significant proportion of boarding places would be taken by Army personnel, subject to discussions with the Ministry of Defence.
Roberts was born in Buffalo on January 27, 1955, and raised in northern Indiana, where his father was an executive with a steel company and his mother a homemaker. (He has three sisters.) Jackie, as he was known, was educated at Catholic schools, and graduated from La Lumiere, at the time an all-boys parochial boarding school in LaPorte.
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