On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

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08:33:49 on Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Mizter T remarked:
Public schools in the UK are open to the public (who can afford to pay
etc) just like "public transport".

Of course some "public schools" seem as though they'll take any
child whose parents can cross their palms with silver.

This thread seems to be suffering from the impression that Public
Schools have severe entry requirements. Some might, but not all of them.

And, as you are in the process of explaining, hence the term 'public', as
opposed to the only other schools which existed before them, the grammar
schools (although i'm not sure if they were called that then), which had
entrance exams (and mostly still do).

tom

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