Re: schools
Wait till you hear this - this'll crack you up. In Britain 'Public Schools' are those very expensive private schools where the 'cream' of society send their kids (typically they board there for much of the year). Public Schools were originally set up in the 1800s so that the kids fron the inner-city slums could get fed, educated and disciplined into fine young gentlemen. So successful were they that the upper classes thought "bugger this" and appropriated them!