The phrase 'purpose of school' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: The purpose of school is to provide students with a safe and engaging learning environment.
What is the purpose of school if not to prepare its students for the problems raised by the outside world?
The board said it was "never the intent or purpose" of school officials to discipline the child for using the word.
One of the many messages we have been at pains to convey to the education establishment is that getting good exam grades is not the sole purpose of school.
There is, however, enough ambiguity there to enable the Supreme Court, considering the statute's broad anti-discrimination purpose, to interpret the phrase "on the basis of sex" to encompass gender identity for the purpose of school bathrooms.
Robinson and colleagues (2008) found that high-performing schools used students' test-results for the purpose of school improvement.
Instead of thinking the purpose of school is to get past That One Test, students will now be told that the purpose of school is to finish off That Next Module.
They are wrong: civic education of this sort is at best ineffective, and often subversive of the moral purpose of schooling.
But even if we could agree, these lessons would be either irrelevant to or, worse, destructive of the inherent moral purpose of schooling.
So Chester E. Finn Jr., a former assistant secretary of education, believes that "the purpose of schools is not to turn our 10-year-olds into policy wonks".
But it adds that the purpose of schools is to educate and they should be a safe and welcoming place for all children.
It adds that they are also receiving a narrower education - with less time for the arts - and they perceive the purpose of schooling is "solely to pass exams".
