Sounds Like A Cult

The Cult of Boarding Schools


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Grab your trusty #2 and find the desk with your name tag on it, because class is in session this week at Sounds Like a Cult! Our /pedagogically inclined/ episodes are always RIPE with juicy insight, and today’s topic is no different. Be it Hogwarts or Pacific Coast Academy, boarding schools have long shrouded themselves in an air of mystery and exclusivity that has most recently led to a culture-wide obsession with the Dark Academia genre. But is this intrigue secretly supporting a sinister institution? What culty rituals and traditions lie behind the plaid and ivy? Let’s find out! Amanda and Chelsea are thrilled to be joined by the wonderful Ceara O’Sullivan from the Petty Crimes podcast to discover what lurks within boarding schools' hallowed (culty) halls.

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Further reading:

  • Psychopathology and Dissociation among Boarding School Students in Eastern Turkey
  • National Museum of the American Indian: Boarding Schools
  • Time for America to Get Over Our Ivy League Obsession
  • A Brief History of Boarding-School Scandals

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