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Princeton's WordNet

  1. reformatory, reform school, training schoolnoun

    correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders

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  1. reform schoolnoun

    A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.

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  1. Reform school

    A reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers mainly operating between 1830 and 1900. In the United Kingdom and its colonies reformatories commonly called reform schools were set up from 1854 onwards for youngsters who were convicted of a crime as an alternative to an adult prison. In parallel, "Industrial schools" were set up for vagrants and children needing protection. Both were 'certified' by the government from 1857, and in 1932 the systems merged and both were 'approved' and became approved schools. Both in the United Kingdom and United States, they came out of social concerns about cities, poverty, immigration, and vagrancy following industrialization, as well as from a shift in society's attitude from retribution, punishing the miscreant to reforming.They were distinct from borstals (1902-1982 UK), which were enclosed juvenile prisons.

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  1. reform school

    A reform school is a type of educational institution, generally for young people who have displayed problematic behaviors or involved in criminal activities. It focuses on implementing discipline and shaping individuals through strict rules, regulations, education, and counseling, intending to reform them so they can eventually reintegrate successfully into society.

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  1. Reform school

    A reform school in the United States was a term used to define, often somewhat euphemistically, what was often essentially a penal institution for boys, generally teenagers.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Reform School

    An Americanism for an institution for the reformation of juvenile offenders.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of reform school in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of reform school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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