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as opposed to y'all across the pond, we call state schools public (they have no religious affiliation) and the other one's private (some are religious, others are not). That's what confused me.
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You've hit the nail on the head. Just because some washed-up D-list comedians who were last known to be funny circa 1985 are desperate to boost their careers the rest of us have to fall into line. Quote:
Whether you have a choice depends on, as LCoU said, whether there's an alternative nearby. If you live in a small town or in a rural area, you may well have no alternative. But the worst things about it are: - why not have state-funded Islamic schools as some groups have demanded, in areas where the majority of kids are muslim? Bit of a double-standard going on there. - more importantly, it embeds sectarianism. I grew up in the west of Scotland where Protestants and Catholics go to different schools. To my mind it just perpetuates the prejudice that exists between these groups. The first thing that kids learn is that Huns/Tims are somehow "different". |
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That's actually not the reason: public schools were originally (i.e. 200-600 years ago) founded/endowed for the benefit of the public, in the days before free universal education. IOW, anyone could attend them who was able to pay. Also, not all fee-paying schools are public schools - the naming is just convention.
Re: the title of the thread - it's common journalistic practice to omit the definite or indefinite article before a noun in a headline to save space. The problem arises when it's not possible to tell from the context whether the noun is singular or plural - whether it's a charity or charity in general. That's all that happened here (it looked like some non-native English speakers were confused about that).
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