First recorded in 1825–35
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She admitted she found it difficult to adjust back to normal school life when the rules were lifted.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Unified prohibits “the use of cellular phones, pagers, or any electronic signaling device by students on campus during normal school hours or school activities, excluding the students’ lunchtime or nutrition breaks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Nova High and Washington Middle School nearby are in shelter-in-place mode, with outside doors locked but normal school operations continuing, the district said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Because I was a television actor, I wasn't being considered for films, so after a season would end, I'd just go back to my normal school.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2023
They wouldn’t pay for a real teacher trained at the Terre Haute normal school.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The international team of co-authors also includes researchers from Monash University and the Museums Victoria Research Institute in Australia; the Benemérita Normal School of Coahuila in Mexico and the Smithsonian Institution.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023
Once she graduated from high school, Mabovitch attended Milwaukee Normal School and trained to become a teacher.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 12, 2023
The brick hall named for McMullen was finished in 1935 and was the first structure at what was then Eastern Montana Normal School.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
“There was one on Salem Common at one point. There was one next to the Broad Street Cemetery, where Salem Normal School was built,” Ratliff said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
But after they graduated from seventh grade, Colored children who wanted to continue their education had to leave home to attend the Petersburg Normal School for Negroes.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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