"We only have eight empty classrooms for 16 classes.
Soon, Benyamina was staging plays after school in empty classrooms.
Every hallway has empty classrooms, giving the school a desolate feeling.
After four days of staring at empty classrooms, Mr. Qadari called a meeting of the parents.
Their teachers, too, were delighted to be back – despite the slightly muted atmosphere and the empty classrooms.
A fellow pariah, I often swapped stories with witty, warm, intelligent Nan in empty classrooms as I waited hopefully for my own dangerous, fascinating witch-gift to manifest.
"There was available space," Mrs. Williams said last week as she surveyed empty classrooms in a portable building at P.S. 34.
Concerts make everything very real, and we've seen so many changes since we first started, when we would practise in empty classrooms and sleep in parking lots.
In Mumbai, so many parents have pulled their children out of government schools that officials have started renting empty classrooms to charities and labor unions — and even to private schools.
In a college in Kokrajhar that had been turned into housing for Bodo villagers, hurriedly packed clothes and utensils formed small heaps in empty classrooms, which had been closed to students since the violence erupted.
The attack, the culmination of escalating insecurity in north-eastern Kenya, triggered a mass exodus of teachers from the region, leaving behind empty classrooms and young people in crisis.
