[
UK
/skˈuːltʃaɪld/
]
[ US /ˈskuɫˌtʃaɪɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈskuɫˌtʃaɪɫd/ ]
NOUN
- a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
How To Use schoolchild In A Sentence
- Its popularity in 1948 with both schoolchildren and adults saw the Blossom Street picture house bursting at the seams during matinees and evening performances for weeks on end.
- Schoolchildren could be frisked for weapons against their will as teachers are recruited into the crackdown on youth knife culture.
- Medical inspections for schoolchildren become compulsory by law.
- They wanted me to be a schoolchild and ask basic questions, such as 'What is a medlar?' Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians
- The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
- One of our current realities is that the State of Florida is facing declining tax revenues, and is balancing its books on the backs of schoolchildren. Discourse.net: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Still Doesn't Have Our Interests at Heart
- During the yearlong exhibition, didactic programs are offered for schoolchildren.
- Nearly half of all schoolchildren in London have had at least one tutor, but a quarter of those outside the capital have too. Times, Sunday Times
- The film chronicles the everyday doings of a group of London schoolchildren.
- Schoolchildren must be taught to deal with dangerous situations .