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secondary modern school in British Englishnoun British (formerly) a secondary school offering a more technical or practical and less academic education than a grammar school Examples of 'secondary modern school' in a sentencesecondary modern school I spent two terms in 1965 teaching physical education in a secondary modern school.I myself was educated at a secondary modern school, but that was my choice.I learnt it in the 1940s along with compulsory chess at my go-ahead secondary modern school.What was it like to leave a secondary-modern school without having learnt to read or write?He made it later, transferred from secondary modern school because he excelled academically, but the fear of failure stuck.He attended the local secondary modern school, and started training to be a teacher, before deciding he would rather see the world.He had failed his 11-plus, gone to secondary modern school, which he left at 16, and educated himself.I was hugely lucky in doing so, but my neighbours, they didn't go to the grammar, they went to the secondary modern school.Remember what happened to the secondary modern schools? |