schoolchild

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They also backed successful efforts providing free breakfast and lunch for every California schoolchild, registering 1.2 million voters in the state, and supporting the state’s largest provider of services for immigrants, Steyer said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Every schoolchild learns how larger European empires, including Russia, divided up the country among themselves in the 18th and 19th centuries, temporarily erasing it from the map.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Every British schoolchild learns about King Harold, William the Conqueror and 1066.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

I’d done my homework here as a schoolchild.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom