free school

noun

a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.

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Example sentences from the Web for free school

The mother could not read nor write—'worse luck,' as she said; her only chance of educating these children was a free-school.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 |Various
And it is not unlikely that the Poet may, at some time, have been an assistant teacher in the free-school at Stratford.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. |H. N. Hudson
He built a free-school at Ulfrunehampton in Staffordshire, etc.

The Survey of London |John Stow
I went to Tunbridge, to see a solemn exercise at the free-school there.

The Diary of John Evelyn, Volume II (of 2) |John Evelyn

But, I should say he belonged, if anything, to the free-school system.

The Confidence-Man |Herman Melville

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free school

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Example sentences from the Web for free school