alternative school

collocation in English

meaningsofalternativeandschool

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alternative
adjective
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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school
noun
uk
/skuːl/us
/skuːl/
a place where children go to ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandschoolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Recently, they formed analternativeschool.
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Thealternativeschoolsays that nothing can be done in any event.
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There were 23 children on the roll, and thealternativeschoolwas almost three miles away.
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The families of those children do not seem to have anyalternativeschoolto which to send their children.
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I think that she should appreciate the difficulties in identifying areas in which there is genuinely noalternativeschool.
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We are concerned with protecting parents, and the parents at risk are only those who have noalternativeschool.
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The group also ran analternativeschool.
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The board also oversees onealternativeschool.
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Parent involvement was encouraged at thisalternativeschool.
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In an urban area there is often analternativeschoolwithin reasonable distance, whereas in a rural area that may not be the case.
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Analternativeschoolmay pose problems of accessibility, or the parent may be unhappy about the curriculum offered by that school.
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Furthermore, we are not in this case dealing with an area in whichalternativeschoolprovision is many miles away over difficult or treacherous country roads.
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In some cases there may be a perfectly acceptablealternativeschoolwithin easy reach that offers additional facilities and improves the quality of education on offer.
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The provision would typically involve either analternativeschool, the tuition service or, for older pupils, a shared placement arrangement with the further education sector and other providers.
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The school re-opened as analternativeschoolin 1991 and closed in 2007.
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It eventually housed analternativeschool, community education and school district administrative functions.
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It operates three elementary schools, two secondary schools and analternativeschool.
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It was the firstalternativeschoolfor grade 7 and 8 students.
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She dropped out of high school to form analternativeschoolwith friends.
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Therefore, eachalternativeschoolmay have different beliefs about what education should include.
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There are several elementary schools and onealternativeschoollocated in the neighborhood.
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The school became analternativeschoolfor troubled students in the 1980s.
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That summer, a call went out to all applicants interested in saving thealternativeschoolidea.
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The school has decided to send her to analternativeschoolbecause she is pregnant.
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There is one large campus housing the elementary, junior high, high school, andalternativeschool.
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