Boarding school and Day school

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Boarding school noun - A private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught.

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Day school is an antonym for boarding school.

Day school noun - A private school taking day students only.

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Boarding school is an antonym for day school.

Boarding School: Technically, Manchester Prep is a day school, but it comes with the same tropes of spoiled students picking on Scholarship Students and engaging in Situational Sexuality — except for the one perfect and kind student, of course.

Source: Film / Cruel Intentions

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