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Originally Posted by BookCat
rcentros: Where are you from? (Ends sentence with preposition!) In Britain 'public school' means boarding school; that place where you spend oodles of money in order that your child has a 'superior' education. The other type is a state school. I'm not sure to which you are refering.
I can't remember which poster mentioned this, but there is a great deal of difference in the meanings of 'less' and 'fewer'.
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The United States. Here "public school" just means a school financed by public taxes, as opposed to a private or religious school where the tuition is paid by the parents. My Dad managed to keep me out of school until the 4th grade and then, on the day I turned 16, I walked out of high school and never went back. (Sixteen is the age in the United States where school is no longer mandatory). Even when I was going to public school, my dad assigned me "schoolwork" at home. "Look up this subject and write an essay about it."