cutting class

Example Sentences

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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

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

We were lucky we were cutting class down by Propp’s pond.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez