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1  Jem said he reckoned he wasn't, he'd passed the Radley Place every school day of his life.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  Scout yonder's been readin ever since she was born, and she ain't even started to school yet.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
3  I returned to school and hated Calpurnia steadily until a sudden shriek shattered my resentments.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
4  Atticus seemed to have forgotten my noontime fall from grace; he was full of questions about school.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  I told Atticus I didn't feel very well and didn't think I'd go to school any more if it was all right with him.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
6  If Walter had owned any shoes he would have worn them the first day of school and then discarded them until mid-winter.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
7  "They can go to school any time they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education," said Atticus.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  We saw him off on the five o'clock bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school in a week.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
9  It was not often that she made crackling bread, she said she never had time, but with both of us at school today had been an easy one for her.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  He waited in amiable silence, and I sought to reinforce my position: "You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too."
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11  Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
12  Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
13  The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
14  The judge decided to send the boys to the state industrial school, where boys were sometimes sent for no other reason than to provide them with food and decent shelter: it was no prison and it was no disgrace.
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15  The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
17  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
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