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common school
noun
- a public school usually including both primary and secondary grades but sometimes primary grades alone.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of common school1
An Americanism dating back to 1650–60
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Example Sentences
No sooner did common schools emerge than violence engulfed them.
From Washington Post
The laws of the Republic of Liberia provide for a common school in every town.
From Project Gutenberg
Our present common-school system is an off-spring of popular opinion, as that opinion was created and led to action by a few men.
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What is popularly known as learning is to be acquired in the common school, high school, academy and college, as heretofore.
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No advantages in the way of a common school education were within reach of the youth situated as was Kit Carson.
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But we need not rest upon the family fact or the old common school system.
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