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School day   /skul deɪ/   Listen
School day

noun
1.
Any day on which school is in session.
2.
The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.  Synonyms: school, schooltime.  "He didn't miss a single day of school" , "When the school day was done we would walk home together"





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"School day" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the hearing, the Vice-Chancellor said, that any scheme of education, without religion, would be worse than a mockery. The parties afterwards agreed, that the masters and mistresses should be members of the Church of England; that every school day the master should give religious instruction, during one hour, to all the scholars, such religious instruction to be confined to the reading and explanation of the Scriptures; that on every Lord's day he should give instruction ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... basis of the American public school system. The fact is now noted with a good deal of interest, that the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1913, enacted a law, distinctly recognizing this fact, and providing that at least ten verses from the Bible shall be read every school day, in the presence of the scholars in every public school within the bounds of the state. Every teacher refusing to comply with this law ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... expect their children to be in school every day, and the children grow up fully impressed with the idea that they are to attend school regularly. The chief reason for the efficiency of compulsory attendance in Germany lies in the fact that it covers every school day, and therefore does not allow the formation of ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley


Words linked to "School day" :   study hall, schooltime, period of time, school, period, time period, day


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