= Сообщение: 5340 из 12556 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 30 Aug 17 14:43:49 Кому : Robert Bashe 30 Aug 17 14:43:49 Тема : Teachers FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+59a6b2fc На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+59a6a931 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== ============================================================================== On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:59:22 Robert Bashe -> David Rance wrote:
RB> David Rance wrote to Gerrit Kuehn on Tuesday August 29 2017 at 23:40:
DR>> That was certainly the case when I was at school more than sixty years DR>> ago. Things have changed since, of course, because for many years I DR>> was a male teacher in a girls' grammar school.
RB> ;-) How language can deceive. In the States, "grammer school" is RB> classes 1-6, for small children and low teens. I think what you call a RB> "grammer school" might be what the Americans call a "highschool", for RB> higher teens up to around 18. Does that come close?
Vaguely! What the Americans call high school we call secondary school (ages 11 to 18). But we have comprehensive secondary schools (non-selective, all ability), grammar schools (selective and more academic) and secondary modern schools (non-selective and aimed at basic vocational courses. Successive socialist governments have tried to make all schools into comprehensives but there are still a significant number of grammar schools still in existence.
A public school in the UK is essentially a private school, that is, they charge fees, some several thousands of pounds per term. These are of old foundations, the most famous being Eton and Churchill's old school, Harrow. My own school, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, wasn't actually a public school but was run on public school lines. It was founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1562.
David
-- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
