Re: [Sheflug] OT: Possible Relocation to Sheffield, many questionsfollowing:

[Matthew Palmer <nospam [at] ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Dave Mimno wrote:

> > Question 4: How are the schools? Public schools any good? I expect
> > them to be better than US public schools, but with school-aged kids I
> > need to ask...
> 
> <delurk>
> 
> I don't know if this is actually a source of confusion, but I thought I 
> should point it out: in the United States, "public" schools are government 
> funded, free to anyone in a particular geographic area, whereas "private" 
> schools are non-government, tuition funded schools, usually more 
> prestigious and often better than the public equivalent.
> 
> I believe that in the UK it is the exact opposite.

Close, but not quite.  'Comprehensive' is govt funded open-to-all, 'Public'
is U.S./Oz/Other-sane-place 'private'.

- Matt (Aussie returned from time spent living in Sheffield)

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