Afterschool


for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job.
Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
Contemporary Examples

“I thought they had a good relationship,” a teacher who had the boy in an afterschool program remembers.
Why Epilepsy, Not Henry Wachtel, Is to Blame for Teen’s Mother’s Death Michael Daly April 26, 2012

The first lead I had was a show called Insight, and it was an afterschool special.
Sheen Family’s Epic Journey Marlow Stern October 6, 2011

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