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What (who) is public school - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Public School; Public schools; Public Schools; Public school (disambiguation)
public school
(public schools)
1.
In Britain, a public school is a private school that provides secondary education which parents have to pay for. The pupils often live at the school during the school term.
He was headmaster of a public school in the West of England.
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In the United States, Australia, and many other countries, a public school is a school that is supported financially by the government and usually provides free education.
...Milwaukee's public school system.
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public school
¦ noun
1. (in the UK) a private fee-paying secondary school.
2. (chiefly in North America) a school supported by public funds.
Public school
·add. ·- In the United States, a free primary, grammar, or high school maintained by the local government.
II. Public school ·add. ·- In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class.
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Public school
Public school may refer to:
- State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government
- Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England and Wales
- Great Public Schools, independent non-government fee-charging (mainly boys') elite schools in New South Wales, Australia originally established on the basis of Christian denominations
- Public Schools Association, a group of seven independent boys' schools in Perth, Western Australia
- Associated Public Schools of Victoria, a group of eleven elite schools in Victoria, Australia
- Public school (India), a group of historically elite fee-charging privately owned and managed schools in India
Examples of use of public school
1. For instance, he supported vouchers for public school students so they might attend other schools –– a position public school teachers‘ unions strongly oppose.
2. With New York City public school pupils. (110 min.) Documentary about New York preteens learning ballroom dancing in a public school program.
3. The Tories erupted in glee at this tiff, in which one public school toff accused another public school toff of being inadequately tough on riff–raff.
4. I had attended ... an independent school – public school – myself." Such confident declarations have long since ceased to be made by public school educated politicians.
5. There are about 3 million public school teachers nationwide.