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cutting class



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“That’s the key for the parents and the kids to come back to school because otherwise we may start getting lots of cutting class and not coming back.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024

Shifting school starts is so powerful that Teny Shapiro, an economics professor at Santa Clara University, has found beginning school an hour later is the functional equivalent of cutting class size by a third.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

Labour's pledge card was employed by Tony Blair to highlight promises such as cutting class sizes and NHS waiting lists, ahead of the 1997 landslide.

From BBC • May 3, 2015

There may be some sweet gratification in noncompliance – such as cutting class or calling in sick, or simply feeling better on your own terms.

From US News • Jul. 30, 2014

“Even still, cutting class is a serious offense, Mustafa, boring or not. You shouldn’t have been with those kids in the first place.”

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan