School Type Quotes

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

It shouldn't matter what type of school a student attends, so long as the school is the right fit for that student.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.

Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.