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Equipment given to school is trashy stuff (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kitsch

'trashy stuff' is the definition.
(trashy or tasteless items)

'equipment given to school' is the wordplay.
'equipment' becomes 'kit' (kit is a kind of equipment).
'given to' says to put letters next to each other.
'school' becomes 'sch'.
'kit'+'sch'='KITSCH'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for kitsch that I've seen before include "Excessively garish or sentimental" , "Pretentiousness and bad taste in art" , "Trash, trashy" , "Vulgarly pretentious art" , "Vulgarised art" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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