We have private schools, public schools, grant-maintained schools, state-funded religious schools, privately-funded religious schools, city academies, 6th-form colleges, private tutors, community colleges, reform schools, schools of art, technical schools, schools of dolphins, seminaries, madrassas and football academies.
They are run by boards of governors, bursars, parent-teacher associations, local authorities, central government, the Football Association, Opus Dei, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Tony Blair's creationist chums, and Abu Hamza. There are four national curricula. External examinations are set by the Joint Matriculation Board, Oxford University, Cambridge University, McDonalds university, AQA, OCR, CIE, edexcel, CCEA, Lord David Beckham VC, ICAAE, WJEC and Sue Perkins. Internal examinations are conducted by the Catholic priesthood, and Sir James Savile (deceased). The examination boards are themselves examined by OFWAT, Ofsted, Father Ted, and half a kilo of kumquats. Each of these is overseen by the Secretary of State for education, who in turn is responsible to the Bullingdon Club, who answer to no-one. It's no wonder we're all so feckin' intelligent. Dr. Prof. Bob, MA, D. Phil., STD, Milk Marketing board (Hon.) On 7 Apr 2013, at 17:18, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > What the British & I guess India call "Public Schools" are what we in > the U.S. call private schools. > > I'm not sure what they call actual public schools, except they call the > kind of private schools we call Charter Schools "free schools". > > From: Paul Stenquist >> All U.S. public schools are non-demominational. >> >> Paul via phone >> >> On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 6 Apr 2013, at 16:01, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> In an effort to inject a bit of levity into this discussion.. >>>> >>>> On 4/6/2013 10:12, Bipin Gupta wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>> I am a Hindu, but went to a Roman Catholic Boarding Public School, so >>>>> I fully understand Western Values. >>>>> ... >>>> What's wrong with this sentence? >>> >>> Spurious logic. >>> >>> B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
