ragged school
Britishnoun
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It's sorely tempting to reduce California's ragged school reopening effort to a couple of central forces.
From Salon
In Hackney, London – where I live – they gave several performances, inspiring a local ragged school to set up the UK’s first gospel choir.
From The Guardian
She founded a ragged school, bringing education to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.
From BBC
The records of The Ragged School Museum, in London, contain photographs of children wearing very individual uniforms at Hamlet of Radcliff School, a charity school founded in 1910.
From BBC
The museum is housed in three huge canalside buildings, which once formed the largest ragged school in run by Dr Thomas Barnardo.
From The Guardian
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