The phrase
"room schoolhouse" refers to a small building where children go to learn. It typically has only one classroom, where students of different ages and grades are taught together.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«room»
«schoolhouse»
Sentences with «room schoolhouse»
- Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job: (gse.harvard.edu)
- It wasn't so much an intellectual experience as a gut one... I could just feel that my son would do okay there (it was a two - room schoolhouse with only 35 kids K - 5 and three full - time teachers). (crunchydomesticgoddess.com)
- That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures. (educationnext.org)
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