The story takes place in a second-rate boarding school run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delasalle (Meurisse).

She graduated from a somewhat second-rate school in Ohio, her father..." "Has Corbish had any extramarital affairs?

Mart Vermaak and Dalena van Vuuren are roommates at a second-rate boarding school in the unattractive town of Black River.

The reality is that many second-rate schools in the inner city are becoming third-rate as students are drilled day after day to pass the tests.

The Americans With Disabilities Act, in an attempt to give full educational benefits to people once shunted into second-rate special schools, has recommended that schools be made more fully accessible.

But what most people regard as a second-rate school may compensate in other ways.

Indeed, universities like this one, whose enrollment is still almost all black, were set up as second-rate schools.

At their regular dinners together, a former whip recalls, 'the atmosphere is very much like that at a second-rate public school or a duff regiment.'

But he was a wretched student, bouncing from one second-rate prep school to another until, in 1925, his father died intestate and left the family virtually penniless.

With his thinning hair, blotchy face and old-fashioned clothes, he looked like a junior army officer or perhaps a teacher in a second-rate private school.