[governance] Net neutrality: Definitions

[Roland Perry]

In message <4C6A54D0.6060302 at itforchange.net>, at 14:52:24 on Tue, 17 
Aug 2010, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes

> public schools

In the USA a "public school" is one run by the local council, usually 
free of charge at the point of delivery.

In the UK a "public school" is one of the (often more upmarket) 
privately-run schools[3][4.

But the reason they are "public" is because they will accept anyone as a 
student, if long as they can pay the fees[1][2].

You don't have to have some *other* specialised credential, the most 
obvious at the time they were founded: having a clergyman, or the local 
Lord of the Manor, as a parent.

[1] Although there are normally some scholarships too, but let's not get 
distracted.

[2] And if oversubscribed they may impose some sort of proficiency test, 
but that's very different from the "son of preacherman" test.

[3] Generally run as a charity.

[4] Those in my first paragraph being called "state schools".
-- 
Roland Perry
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