Example sentences for: elementary-school

How can you use “elementary-school” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ad is set in an elementary-school (or whatever the British call elementary school) classroom, where the kids are engaged in a furious game of musical chairs.

  • I'm an elementary-school teacher--which is surely the profession most indoctrinated with anti-drug propaganda--in a small Texas town.

  • This is an oft-noted weakness of some of the liberal "values" teaching that already goes on in schools--a lot of silly misinformation about the environment and ancient African civilizations, for example, routinely ends up being passed along by bumfuzzled elementary-school teachers.

  • Assignments in black studies have filtered down to the high-school, junior-high, and even elementary-school level (and remember the black liturgical occasions we now have on the calendar that beg for special schoolchild reports of one sort or another: the King holiday, Black History Month, Black Music Month, Kwanzaa, Malcolm X's birthday, Juneteenth), and while not every school does all of this, most schools must do some of this.

  • Those interested in acquiring some (sanitized) sense of how great is the task--even in the absence of any other social problems--that faces a teacher wishing to impart mainstream speaking and writing skills to black students who don't have them might consult the soon-to-be-published English: An African-American Handbook--A Guide to the Mastery of Speaking More and Better English , by Savannah Miller Young, a black elementary-school principal in St. Louis.


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