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Came to ask the same question, but I got the impression a UK "grammar school" is analogous to a USA "charter school" or private school.
by bediger4000 3y ago
Came to ask the same question, but I got the impression a UK "grammar school" is analogous to a USA "charter school" or private school.
- PaulHoule 3y agoThey have some really weird terminology in the UK. A "public school" is not like US public schools at all but rather is an exclusive private school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) George Orwell went to one, maybe that is how he got some of the ideas about language that are in that essay at the end of 1984... For the definition of "grammar school" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school
- bediger4000 3y agoThanks for the link. I'm going to have to go with equivalent to a private high school in the USA
- NikkiA 3y agoIf such schools have scholarships, then it would be pretty close - the whole point of a grammar school was/is that it's largely private, with 10-25% of the students non-paying, and chosen from the highest scoring state school students.