The Importance Of Boarding Schools

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Becoming more educated is one of the reasons why the St.Lucy’s girls and the Indian children were forced to attend boarding schools. Indian children and St.Lucy’s girls are becoming more educated by learning to have better handwriting. Both schools are applying them with the skills and knowledge that they need to learn of our powerful American nation. These boarding schools are a tremendous impact on the children attending them. The schools are teaching them the English language so they can communicate easier with the world around them. Given these points you can see how they are progressing with their education by attending these boarding

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