In the 14th and 15th centuries, boarding schools were monastic training grounds, run by clergymen.
"We are looking for unusual and unused buildings above ground, like boarding schools, fire stations, office buildings or banks.
The police patrolled Zone A. Firefighters boarded school buses and helped take the elderly to safe ground.
Students who live too far away can stay at a boarding house on the school grounds, jointly built by parents, community and local authorities.
The girl having the party was a teacher's daughter at a nearby boarding school – her house was on school grounds – so me and the old school friends I'd rounded up all figured it would be two crates of Fosters, some Quavers and out by 11 30.
The website said the school grounds comprise a boarding house, the school buildings and a madrassa where the Islamic curriculum is taught.
As an English schoolboy, I bolted from classes in a 1950s boarding school to a mound on the grounds where my friends and I had scraped a twisting, plunging track that we used to race miniatures of the era's grand prix cars, in my case the Ferraris driven by legendary figures like Alberto Ascari and Juan Manuel Fangio.
Jumping several decades ahead, Corley has been turned into a boarding school, and Cecil, buried in the grounds, is the pretext for Peter, a teacher, to ask Paul, a bank clerk who will later write a sensational biography of Cecil, on a date.
Last July it burned 29 students alive at a school in northern Nigeria, and this February massacred 59 schoolboys at a boarding school before razing the building to the ground.
Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.
