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elementary school

noun

  1. the lowest school giving formal instruction, teaching the rudiments of learning, and extending usually from six to eight years.



elementary school

noun

  1. a former name for primary school

  2. Also called (in the US): grade school. grammar school.a state school in which instruction is given for the first six to eight years of a child's education

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of elementary school1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Because people get pretty testy when you accidentally smoke out an elementary school or old folks home, burn plans have to clear substantial hurdles presented by the California Environmental Quality Act and air quality regulators.

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As for Josefina’s family, they decided that her husband — who immigrated from Mexico when he was in elementary school about 40 years ago — would return to work.

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“Because you lived your whole life, elementary school to high school, everything done for you. Now, it’s like, you gotta figure stuff out yourself and just have to see where that takes you.”

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But in April federal agents were turned away by staff at two elementary schools.

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In interviews, Newsom has repeated that the Trump administration is targeting children in elementary school classrooms and law-abiding citizens who have been in California for a decade or more.

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