blackboard jungle

English

Noun

blackboard jungle (plural blackboard jungles)

  1. A school with dangerous, unruly pupils.
    • 2011, William J. Reese, America's Public Schools, page 309:
      […] blackboard jungles abounded in the media, the widening gap between suburban and urban school performance was frequently in the news.
    • 2015, Martha Stephens, Me and the Grandmas of Baghdad, page 64:
      […] could subdue any renegade person or family, but I wonder if they would not meet their match in the blackboard jungles of today.

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