elementary-schooler

plural elementary-schoolers

1. alternativeAlternative form of elementary schooler.

   Our girls morphed from wide-eyed elementary-schoolers into teenagers in full bloom, intent on achieving independence and the privileges of adult life.

   2022 November 12, Michelle Obama, “‘Is everyone doing this perfectly but me?’ Michelle Obama on the guilt and anxiety of being a mother - and her golden parenting rules”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2022

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   “I’m not looking for pretty sound yet,” he [Chan Ho Yun] tells the five violin-bearing elementary-schoolers arrayed before him. “I’m looking for correct posture.”

   2001 January 14, James Ricci, “When Making Music for the Soul, It’s All Elementary”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2021

   One of my friends — she’d be in 42nd grade now — is taking the new-school-year-new-me concept literally, starting classes at the same time as her elementary-schoolers, step one of a plan to earn her master's degree and change careers.

   2019 September 6, Mary Laura Philpott, “I’m So Excited for 40th Grade”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2019