de-graded

Updated: June 29, 2025

Now that Greenbank had its eyes open for a little time, it was surprised to see that while the cities along the river had all adopted graded schools, de-graded schools, as they were called by the people opposed to them, and while even the little villages in the hill country had younger and more enlightened teachers, the county-town of Greenbank had made no advance.

Edward Eggleston - The Hoosier School-boy