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common school

n.

A public elementary school.

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Common school education, so far as they were concerned, had ceased.

The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context

We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

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