Should we say a teacher goes to school or goes to the school?

[Cinderella_Sz]

Hello, Alan,
Would you please tell me which of the following sentences is right?

1. A teacher goes to school.
2. A teacher goes to the school.

Thanks

[Cinderella_Sz]

请告诉我好吗

[Alan]

Please write in English!

Alan
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[Subway]

This is just a guess. I’m not a teacher.
''Goes to school" - unspecified school. It doesn't matter which school the teacher attends. In "My kids go to school every day" it's implicit and sufficiently clear that I'm talking about the elementary school.
"Goes to the school" - a specification about the school is needed. For example, "...to the school of arts". That would be fine, though, if the kind of school had already been mentioned in the text.

[Cinderella_Sz]

Sorry, the Chinese means “Would you please tell me the answer?"

And thanks a lot, Subway.