public school
(obsolete) A college or university.
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I only got to go to public school because I'd started figure skating, and they were flexible with my schedule. Back to the Jesuits for my first two years of college before transferring.
Detroit News Michigan schools with highest household income got 30% of free lunch money ‘∎ Farmington Public School District ($107,000), $1.9 million’
It started when I was very young. From the moment I entered the public school system, my teachers’ approach was to mold me into their system, like a star-shaped peg, violently hammered into a triangular hole.
A $1.25 million dividend portfolio can generate an income comparable to a U.S. public school teacher's salary with varying capital requirements based on yield.
No respectable public school would subject kids to this horror show.
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(obsolete) A college or university.
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(UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British .
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(North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, formerly Scottish English, Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of othercountries.
: All such School-masters as have charge of Children and do instruct them either in Publick Schools, or PrivateHouses.
“I only got to go to public school because I'd started figure skating, and they were flexible with my schedule. Back to the Jesuits for my first two years of college before transferring.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Detroit News Michigan schools with highest household income got 30% of free lunch money ‘∎ Farmington Public School District ($107,000), $1.9 million’”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It started when I was very young. From the moment I entered the public school system, my teachers’ approach was to mold me into their system, like a star-shaped peg, violently hammered into a triangular hole.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A $1.25 million dividend portfolio can generate an income comparable to a U.S. public school teacher's salary with varying capital requirements based on yield.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“No respectable public school would subject kids to this horror show.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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