cutting class
Example Sentences
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A deal was struck to honour the pledge by cutting class contact time less than a week before industrial action was due to begin.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
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
Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2021
Vanessa attributed her own academic setbacks — a good student in middle school, she began cutting class and courting trouble in high school — to the fact that her parents were checked out.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018
“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
