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ragged school
noun
- (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
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It's sorely tempting to reduce California's ragged school reopening effort to a couple of central forces.
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In Hackney, London – where I live – they gave several performances, inspiring a local ragged school to set up the UK’s first gospel choir.
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She founded a ragged school, bringing education to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.
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The records of The Ragged School Museum, in London, contain photographs of children wearing very individual uniforms at Hamlet of Radcliff School, a charity school founded in 1910.
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The museum is housed in three huge canalside buildings, which once formed the largest ragged school in run by Dr Thomas Barnardo.
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