In my tiny high school in rural North Georgia, dancing was not considered manly for boys.

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Ms. Zhou came to Shenzhen in 2005 after graduating from high school in rural Sichuan province.

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According to the Sioux Falls Argus, this fall the rural town of Bonesteel will teach high school biology, physics and physical science via the Internet, working with other classmates to solve problems created in a series of scenarios and problems.

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It was also common and perfectly acceptable during those times for high school students in many rural Virginia areas to hunt before classes, then to store rifles in trunks of cars parked in school lots.

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In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday morning church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program.

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Here, Plaintiffs did not establish what percentage of the class was comprised of inhabitants of urban centers and rural areas, persons who did not complete high school, as well as high school and college graduates, those who are impoverished fortuitously and those who are of modest means by choice or avocation, or persons with some financial acumen versus those without any.

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