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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    In case anyone doesn't know the old UK system, at 11 you took an exam. If you passed you went to a state Grammar School, if you failed you went to a state Secondary School. So not, at least directly, related to wealth.
    What is a private grammar school then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GentleGeorge:
    What is a private grammar school then?
    Never heard of them. Perhaps in the old system there were a few parallel private grammar schools. They were not going to call them private secondary schools. I thought they just used the name of the school, the two nearest us that I knew of were Eton and the Licensed Victuallers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GentleGeorge:
    What is a private grammar school then?
    I went to a private school that was - and still is - called a grammar school...

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    Quote Originally Posted by GentleGeorge:
    What is a private grammar school then?
    A school that was funded by the state but when given the choice to become a comprehensive choose to go private in the 1960's.
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