Boarding schools offer strong traditions of providing educational opportunities for international students. As worldwide boundaries become more permeable, families are increasingly taking advantage of educational options available to them in other countries. The boarding school community today is a mosaic of faces and places. More than 6,200 international students attended boarding schools during the 1999-2000 school year (NAIS Statistics 2000, Volume 1). Teachers and students bring with them diverse ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and cultural perspectives while sharing them in academic and social settings.
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