Prior to the integration of Newfoundland's public ( government-funded ) school system in the late 1990s, those public schools administered by the Catholic Church mandated strict, uniform-like dress codes ( shirts and ties for boys, dresses or skirts for girls ), though many girls were outraged at this due to the freezing weather, at the elementary and junior high school levels, lifting most restrictions for high school students.

Prior to the end of the Cold War, the consensus among students of large-scale violence was that ethnic groups should be considered irrational actors, or semi-rational at best.

Prior to his departure to the Americas at age 27, he was ordered by his superiors to teach philosophy in professorial status to students at the Convento de San Francisco.

Prior to founding the Bujinkan organization and teaching the nine Ryū collectively ( with particular yearly focus ), Hatsumi awarded his students rank certificates in individual Ryū.

Prior to the community's affiliation with Regional School District 19, Willington offered its high school-aged students a choice attending one of the four institutions.

Prior to 1952, Cornelia Public School served all the students residing in Cornelia.

Prior to the opening of the Old Rochester Regional High School in 1961, students in grades 10-12 attended Fairhaven High School in Fairhaven

Following the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, journalist Elinor Burkett spent a year following students and teachers in Prior Lake High School.

The high school students of Prior Lake attend Prior Lake High School in the neighboring town of Savage.

Prior to opening its own high school, students from Windham went to the high school in neighboring Salem, beginning in 1995.

Prior to the establishment of Haddon Township High School in the 1960s, most Haddon Township students attended Collingswood High School ; however, some attended Haddonfield Memorial High School or Audubon High School.

Prior to this agreement, Hi-Nella students attended Collingswood High School.

Prior to the 2006-07 school year, high school students from here were sent to Lawrence High School in Lawrence Township as part of a now-ended sending / receiving relationship with the Lawrence Township Public Schools.

Prior to 2009 students attended Parkdale Elementary in grades K – 2, and Main Street Elementary for grades 3 – 8.

Prior to the formation of the East Allegheny School District, North Versailles high school age students were able to choose to go to one of several high schools in other districts including: East McKeesport High School ( the Rams ), Westinghouse Memorial High School ( the Wildcats ), Turtle Creek High School ( the Creekers ), McKeesport Area High School ( the Tigers ), and East Pittsburgh High School ( the Shamrocks ).

Prior to the opening of Benbrook Middle, students attended Leonard Sixth Grade Center and then Leonard Middle School.

Prior to July 2010, public school students in grades K-8, attended Memorial School in South Hackensack, as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the South Hackensack School District.

Prior to 1929, high school students attended Central High School in Paterson, before the Board of Education voted to send students to Ramsey High School in Ramsey instead.

Prior Pursglove College is a sixth form college in Guisborough teaching GCSE, A level and AS level students.

; Preconceptions: Prior ideas about how things work are remarkably tenacious and an educator must explicitly address a students ' specific misconceptions if the student is to reconfigure his misconception in favour of another explanation.

Prior to their adoption, standardized testing was not traditionally a part of Western pedagogy ; based on the sceptical and open-ended tradition of debate inherited from Ancient Greece, Western academia favored non-standardized assessments using essays written by students.

Prior to the admission of the class of 2014, the first stage consisted of a multiple choice exam ; those who passed this test in the top percentiles ( usually 200 students ) were invited back for a second written exam and an interview.

Prior to departure for Prom, students pose in front of Limo used to transport group of students to Prom venue

Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule.

Prior to this assignment, no women had lived on island since those on the plantation in 1971.

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

Prior to British contact the Meriam people had lived on the islands in a subsistence economy based on cultivation and fishing.

Prior to Chris Farley's death, the two lived in adjacent residences.

Prior to 1868 the Capote ( Kapota ) band of Ute Indians lived in the valley.

Prior to August 1981, no great white shark in captivity lived longer than 11 days.

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

Prior to 1921 " Uzbek " and " Sart " were considered to be different dialects ; " Uzbek " was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak dialect spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana with Shaybani Khan in the 16th century, who lived mainly around Bukhara and Samarkand, although the Turkic spoken in Tashkent was also vowel-harmonised ; " Sart " was a Qarluq dialect spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region in the Ferghana Valley and the Kashka-Darya region, and in some parts of what is now the Samarkand Province ; it contained a heavier admixture of Persian and Arabic, and did not use vowel-harmony.

Prior to World War II, more than 10 million ethnic Germans lived in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to European contact, the area was inhabited by the Mocama, a Timucuan-speaking group who lived throughout the coastal areas of northern Florida.

Prior to his tenure in office, the city's municipal administration was notably lax with regards to public works, and many urban dwellers lived in conditions of great poverty.

" Prior to the Early Dynastic period, kings were subordinate to priests, and often lived in the same temple complex where the priests lived.

Prior to European settlement, Native American tribes, including the Quapaw and later the Cherokee Indians, lived in the area.

Prior to European settlement, the Minquas ( or Susquehannock ) peoples lived in and around modern-day Newport.

Prior to British colonization, the Connecticut River valley was populated by bands of the Western Abenaki, who lived in sometimes-large villages of longhouses.

Prior to arrival of European settlers, the Secatogue tribe of Algonquin native-American people, lived in the area now known as Central Islip.

Prior to that time period, the Mi ’ kmaq lived in Acadia for centuries.

Prior to the 1840s when Euro-Americans settled the area, the Atfalati band of the Kalapuya Native American tribe lived on the Tualatin Plains in what is now Forest Grove.

Prior to, and during, the Civil War, many abolitionists lived in the area, and several locations within the town of Lewisburg served as stopping points on the famous Underground Railroad.

Prior to the founding of Waco in 1849, a Wichita Native American group known as the " Waco " ( Spanish: Hueco or Huaco ) lived on the land of present-day downtown Waco.

Prior to settlement by westerners, the Skykomish Indians lived in the area between Sultan and Index.

Prior to the European exploration it is likely the Mississippian culture tribe, the Oneota, lived in the area.

" The marriage took place in 1745, and from that time Warburton lived at his father-in-law's estate at Prior Park, in Gloucestershire, which he inherited on Allen's death in 1764.