The word 'schoolboys' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of boys who attend school together, or to describe them in general. For example: The schoolboys gathered in the playground to play a game of football.
A story is told in the excellent study of Somalia by James Fergusson – The World's Most Dangerous Place (Bantam Press) – of a group of schoolboys who were tempted into joining al-Shabaab by being given a piece of fruit every day.
Farage revealed his hypocrisy – he is one of the rich public schoolboys he castigated – and his nastiness.
It would be equally nice if the media didn't portray unmarried men as naughty schoolboys, terrified of those crazed women lurking around every corner waiting to kidnap them and take them to the altar.
Personally, I've stuck with the show for the imaginative plotlines and strong characterisation – and very much despite the irksome "medieval" costumes (groan), stupid dragons (eye roll) and risible levels of female nudity that reduce it to soft porn for schoolboys (overgrown and otherwise) presumably too emotionally stunted to lust properly over, say, Lara Croft.
Action against Afghan refugees has intensified following last December's attack by the Pakistani Taliban on the army public school in Peshawar, in which more than 130 schoolboys were killed.
Indeed, the band's first Smash Hits feature depicted Westlife as schoolboys, being tutored by Keating.
It may have been written in 1954 but the decline of order in a community entirely comprising of schoolboys provides a window into a world of disorder and disaster, as relevant in today's world as it was when it was first published… maybe even more so?
Now South Australia bowler Daniel Worrall, clearly taking inspiration from the striking artwork usually found in the back of schoolboys' exercise books, has set the bar at a new low.
Alex Clark This image of two schoolboys at Waterloo station ready to be despatched to their new school – one of them, poignantly, appearing to cling to his mother or nanny's skirt – was part of a feature about prep schools by Paul Ferris accompanied by a portfolio of arresting photographs by Jane Bown.
Programmes teaching schoolgirls that they have a right to say no, and explaining to schoolboys that they have a duty to listen, are being tried out in Uganda and South Africa.
Or else risk public disgrace, like errant schoolboys, and threats of economic sanctions.And the price?This is no way to treat neighbours.
