Talk:State school
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I put a note about this on the public school page but it may be easier to explain here. In at least some parts of England (Surrey and Hampshire in my case) the terminology used is the same as in Scotland. Essentially 'public school' referes to a state school (a term I believed to be exclusive to American where they have states to run 'state' school) and 'independant', 'public' and 'private' schools are all grouped together and called 'private' schools (sometimes a distinction can be made for grammar schools as well).
Essentially if you have to pay for it, or if theres any additional entry requirements beyond the basic ones set by the government its a private school, if not then its a public school.
If this change is accepted it may also be beneficial to add a disambiguation page, or something similar because it took me a very long time to find this page after I discovered the public school page was in fact talking about private schools. I had no idea what else to search for because I had never heard the term state school outside of the USA.
The terms 'independent school' and 'private school'. <- this sentence makes no sense...
[edit] Internationalize!
What is this with just the english speaking countries? Does anyone know if there are articles for the analogous types of Japanese schools (it seems like that should go in this article though) with:
- ken-ritsu (prefecture schools)
- shi-ritsu (private)
- koku-ritsu (national schools)
There might be more, I haven't given this much thought yet, but we need information about those and I don't know where it would be. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 17:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
