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School day   /skul deɪ/   Listen
School day

noun
1.
Any day on which school is in session.
2.
The period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.  Synonyms: school, schooltime.  "He didn't miss a single day of school" , "When the school day was done we would walk home together"





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"School day" Quotes from Famous Books



... I began to come back to my former life, which seemed already so far back, and to think of a little, common school day, and what you were all doing. They have had the forenoon recitations, I thought; they have had dinner, and now,—where can that girl be? I exclaimed, as I looked up and saw that the sun had left one side of the ravine in the shade, and that I must hasten to find my way out. But the farther ...
— The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories • Lydia Maria Child
... basis of the American public school system. The fact is now noted with a good deal of interest, that the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1913, enacted a law, distinctly recognizing this fact, and providing that at least ten verses from the Bible shall be read every school day, in the presence of the scholars in every public school within the bounds of the state. Every teacher refusing to comply with this law ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... expect their children to be in school every day, and the children grow up fully impressed with the idea that they are to attend school regularly. The chief reason for the efficiency of compulsory attendance in Germany lies in the fact that it covers every school day, and therefore does not allow the formation of ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley
... believe that boy stood well in his classes and had the benefit of my precept and example in speech for several hours each school day of the year." ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... of the hearing, the Vice-Chancellor said, that any scheme of education, without religion, would be worse than a mockery. The parties afterwards agreed, that the masters and mistresses should be members of the Church of England; that every school day the master should give religious instruction, during one hour, to all the scholars, such religious instruction to be confined to the reading and explanation of the Scriptures; that on every Lord's day he should give instruction ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster


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