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grade school

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a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades

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In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. David Spade

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. Erma Bombeck

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. Frances Farmer

The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school. John F. Kennedy

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me. Jack White

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be. Adrian Rogers

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