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Post by chris777 on Feb 17, 2010 12:28:27 GMT -5
Are all the schools in the UK boarding schools, or do they have much in the way of day schools? From what I've seen, boarding schools seem to be the standard places of education in the UK.
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 17, 2010 14:01:14 GMT -5
No. Almost all are normal schools like in America. There are very little boarding schools - those are usually attached to 'public' schools. In Britain, public schools are the ones you need to pay to get in to.
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Post by Ghost Bear on Feb 17, 2010 15:11:28 GMT -5
Harry Potter and Narnia are not good references for an insight into life in the UK.  |
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Post by Samildanach on Feb 17, 2010 15:28:04 GMT -5
Hell no. I've only ever met one person who has attended boarding school, and I've never actually seen such a school myself. Almost all schools, including the paradoxically-named 'public schools' (they're private and charge fees), are day schools. There are still boarding schools around, but they're so uncommon as to verge on rarity.
The Hollywood depiction of UK schools is out of date by at least a hundred years, probably longer. When my mum was at school (in the 1950s and 1960s), boarding schools were more common than they are now, but still far outnumbered by ordinary schools.
Assuming that all UK schools are boarding schools is not dissimilar to assuming that all Americans wear stetsons and live on cattle ranches.
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Post by crysis on Feb 17, 2010 15:35:36 GMT -5
Harry Potter and Narnia are not good references for an insight into life in the UK. I'm pretty positive Ghost Bear just used his amazing powers of sixth sense to nail the incentive behind this thread. |
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 17, 2010 15:43:34 GMT -5
One of our public day schools also ran a boarding facility, so was both.
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Post by Doomy on Feb 17, 2010 16:10:42 GMT -5
Assuming that all UK schools are boarding schools is not dissimilar to assuming that all Americans wear stetsons and live on cattle ranches. WHAT? You mean they don't...!?  |
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 17, 2010 16:20:28 GMT -5
He's just being funny. After all, we all go to boarding shcools. Right?
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Post by Doomy on Feb 17, 2010 16:28:12 GMT -5
Of course!
And these days I always wear a pinstripe suit and bowler hat and ride the double-decker bus to work.
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 17, 2010 16:42:18 GMT -5
We're scottish, we wear kilts to work and eat haggis for lunch then drink whiskey while playing bagpipes. Get it right!
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Post by Doomy on Feb 17, 2010 16:52:56 GMT -5
Okay, you rumbled my feeble attempt at deception. By way of apology, here's a picture of a haggis so Chris knows what they really look like.  |
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 17, 2010 17:39:29 GMT -5
That's not a haggis...all the legs are the same length. How are you supposed to catch it if you can't make it run the wrong way around a mountain?
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Post by crysis on Feb 17, 2010 18:14:17 GMT -5
You're both wrong. That's obviously a Wendigo.
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Post by chris777 on Feb 17, 2010 21:50:33 GMT -5
Harry Potter and Narnia are not good references for an insight into life in the UK. Well Ive also gained insight from other sources, such as the movie "If" |
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Post by chris777 on Feb 17, 2010 21:56:20 GMT -5
Assuming that all UK schools are boarding schools is not dissimilar to assuming that all Americans wear stetsons and live on cattle ranches. I personally consider the fedora to be more "American" than the stetson, Ive got a fedora myself. The fedora was made popular in this country by a great American actor, Harrison Ford. However your truly "all American" hat would be the baseball cap, or any kind of hat of similar design. Too say that many Americans wear such hats is not a big stretch. I wear such hats all the time. |
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