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Sweet days of discipline
\"A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: \"At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.\" But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Frâederique, the apparently perfect new girl.\"--Amazon.com.
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Education for Extinction
The last \"Indian War\" was fought against Native American
children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding
schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for
extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white
\"civilization\" take root while childhood memories of \"savagism\"
gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one
official: \"Kill the Indian and save the man.\"
This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction
offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort,
and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship. Much
more than a study of federal Indian policy, this book vividly
details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a
\"total institution\" designed to reconstruct them both
psychologically and culturally. The assault on identity came in
many forms: the shearing off of braids, the assignment of new
names, uniformed drill routines, humiliating punishments,
relentless attacks on native religious beliefs, patriotic
indoctrinations, suppression of tribal languages, Victorian gender
rituals, football contests, and industrial training.
Especially poignant is Adams's description of the ways in which
students resisted or accommodated themselves to forced
assimilation. Many converted to varying degrees, but others plotted
escapes, committed arson, and devised ingenious strategies of
passive resistance. Adams also argues that many of those who
seemingly cooperated with the system were more than passive players
in this drama, that the response of accommodation was not
synonymous with cultural surrender. This is especially apparent in
his analysis of students who returned to the reservation. He
reveals the various ways in which graduates struggled to make sense
of their lives and selectively drew upon their school experience in
negotiating personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly
dominated by white men.
The discussion comes full circle when Adams reviews the
government's gradual retreat from the assimilationist vision.
Partly because of persistent student resistance, but also partly
because of a complex and sometimes contradictory set of
progressive, humanitarian, and racist motivations, policymakers did
eventually come to view boarding schools less enthusiastically.
Based upon extensive use of government archives, Indian and
teacher autobiographies, and school newspapers, Adams's moving
account is essential reading for scholars and general readers alike
interested in Western history, Native American studies, American
race relations, education history, and multiculturalism.
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A troublesome boy
Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold, unforgiving place -- something between a juvenile detention center and reform school. The other boys are mostly a cast of misfits and eccentrics, but Teddy quickly becomes best friends with Cooper, a wise-cracking, Wordsworth-loving kid with a history of neglect. Despite the priests' ruthless efforts to crack down on the slightest hint of defiance or attitude, the boys get by for a while on their wits, humor and dreams of escape. But the beatings, humiliation and hours spent in the school's infamous \"time-out\" rooms, and the institutionalized system of power and abuse that protects the priests' authority, eventually take their toll, especially on the increasingly fragile Cooper. Then one of the new priests, Father Prince, starts to summon Cooper to his room at night, and Teddy watches helplessly as his friend withdraws into his own private nightmare, even as Prince targets Teddy himself as his next victim. Teddy and Cooper's only reprieve comes on Saturdays, when the school janitor, Rozey, takes the boys to his run-down farmhouse outside of town, the only place where the boys can feel normal -- fishing, playing cribbage, watching the bears at the local dump. But even this can't stop Cooper's downward spiral and eventual suicide. And just when Teddy thinks something good might come out of his friend's tragedy, he finds himself dealing with the ultimate betrayal.
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Evaluating Classical Airplane Boarding Methods Considering COVID-19 Flying Restrictions
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has imposed the need for a series of social distancing restrictions worldwide to mitigate the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic. This applies to many domains, including airplane boarding and seat assignments. As airlines are considering their passengers’ safety during the pandemic, boarding methods should be evaluated both in terms of social distancing norms and the resulting efficiency for the airlines. The present paper analyzes the impact of a series of restrictions that have been imposed or mooted worldwide on the boarding methods used by the airlines, featuring the use of jet-bridges and one-door boarding. To compare the efficacy of classical airplane boarding methods with respect to new social distancing norms, five metrics were used to evaluate their performance. One metric is the time to complete the boarding of the airplane. The other four metrics concern passenger health and reflect the potential exposure to the virus from other passengers through the air and surfaces (e.g., headrests and luggage) touched by passengers. We use the simulation platform in NetLogo to test six common boarding methods under various conditions. The back-to-front by row boarding method results in the longest time to complete boarding but has the advantage of providing the lowest health risk for two metrics. Those two metrics are based on passengers potentially infecting those passengers previously seated in the rows they traverse. Interestingly, those two risks are reduced for most boarding methods when the social distance between adjacent passengers advancing down the aisle is increased, thus indicating an unanticipated benefit stemming from this form of social distancing. The modified reverse pyramid by half zone method provides the shortest time to the completing boarding of the airplane and—along with the WilMA boarding method—provides the lowest health risk stemming from potential infection resulting from seat interferences. Airlines have the difficult task of making tradeoffs between economic productivity and the resulting impact on various health risks.
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Empowering nonmedical personnel to detect scabies in endemic area using DeSkab instrument: A diagnostic study
Background: Scabies has been added to World Health Organization (WHO) list of neglected tropical disease in 2017. Various methods have been developed to control scabies in highly prevalent communities. In this study we conducted a diagnostic study to evaluate the performance of scabies detection by trained nonmedical personnel (NMP) using Deteksi Skabies (Deskab) instrument which has been validated for NMP.Methods: Eight NMPs in a boarding school were trained to detect scabies using DeSkab instrument. The NMPs diagnosis were compared to diagnosis of 10 medical doctors. The study was conducted in a religion-affiliated boarding school in West Java, Indonesia. Both examiners consecutively assessed boarding school students using DeSkab instrument and were blinded to each other findings.Results: Among 140 participants included in this study, scabies was confirmed by medical doctors in 60 participants. Diagnostic accuracy of NMPs examination is 72.14% [95% confidence interval (CI) 64.2-78.9], with sensitivity and specificity 67.42% (95% CI 57.13-76.26), and 80.32% (95% CI 67.54-88.98) respectively. The inter-rater agreement (Cohen’s kappa) for diagnosing scabies is 0.44.Conclusion: NMPs can be trained to detect scabies in their community with acceptable accuracy. Improving training are recommended to further improve the diagnosis skills and maintaining sustainable detection program.
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No rules
After Friday Barnes is deported to Switzerland, Highcrest Academy descends into chaos as all their teachers are fired as an epic prank, but Friday tries to find the prankster, prove the innocence of her nemesis Ian Wainscott, and save the school.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the school's founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man's ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.More than 10,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its initiators ever grasped.Carlisle Indian Industrial Schooloffers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still touches the lives of many Native Americans.
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Silver
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.
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Boarding School, Academic Motivation and Engagement, and Psychological Well-Being: A Large-Scale Investigation
Boarding school has been a feature of education systems for centuries. Minimal large-scale quantitative data have been collected to examine its association with important educational and other outcomes. The present study represents one of the largest studies into boarding school conducted to date. It investigates boarding school and students' motivation, engagement, and psychological well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, interpersonal relationships)—controlling for sociodemographic, achievement, personality, and school covariates. The main sample comprised 5,276 high school students (28% boarding students; 72% day students) from 12 high schools in Australia. A subsample of 2,002 students (30% boarding students; 70% day students) had pretest data, enabling analyses of gains or declines in outcomes across the school year. Results indicated predominant parity between boarding and day students on most outcome factors, some modest positive results favoring boarding students, and no notable differences in gains or declines on outcomes between boarders and day students over the course of one academic year. Implications for researchers, the boarding sector, parents, and students are discussed.
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