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In the UK, a private school is a school for which the pupils must pay to attend. They are usually home to snobby, stuck up kids with a supiriority complex, even though tuition in such establishments is not much better than in the free alternative.
Very prestigous private schools are known as public schools.
The Art's Educational Secondary School in london is a private school, and Eton is a public school.

A pupil at a private school is known as a private schoolboy/girl, and a at a public school is known as a public schoolboy/girl.

A free school in the UK is known as a state school.
by Blasds July 27, 2006
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Schools that usually provide better education for it's students than most public schools. Admission requires money or scholarships or both; some schools require entrance examinations. Their curriculum is not mandated by the state.

rich white people like it because it's it's full of other rich white people and no minorities to scare them.
by mAGIK bUS April 17, 2005
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An institution that is usually meant to be mono-sex (or boys only/ girls only) and is rarely Coed. Most are established on the Main Line (Pennsylvania, New York up to New England) or on the west coast (California only). Private Schools or Prep Schools are establishments started in the 1910s and have a "college" setting. Sometimes students board there and sometimes the school is run like a public school. The attendants come from families with a bit (quite a bit) more money then other families, except in the case of the occasional well-spoken scholarship boy. Instead of being forced to believe in unified ideas and socialist ideas (brought up by friends of mine who go to public school) they are 'encouraged' or 'forced' to come up with their own ideas about how the world should work. In this way the school will produce leaders, CEO's, and Wall Street stock analysts that will make between $450,000-$2,500,000 per year or highly paid surgeons and consultants that make $250-$700 an hour.
The kids attend Ivy League schools and in this way the private or prep school can claim success that they can advertise to the wealthy folk, who probably attended private/prep schools themselves. The children who attend these institutions are not always stuck up (in fact at my school VERY few are).

Pros:

-Small classes (between 10-25 kids divided into 2 homerooms)
-"New" educational ideas that promote self-acting
-Prestige when applying for colleges and jobs
-AP courses that allow up to 2 years worth of college
courses to be accumulated in senior year
-Less violence

Cons:

-Not usually Coed
-Separation from the unwashed masses that the kids will have
to deal with when they have big powerful administrative
jobs
Dean: "So I'd like to start this application for our college
with an interview, so please tell me about yourself."

The Private School / Prep School Student's Response:

"Well I attended a Prep School from 6th-12th grade, scoring a 3.50+ GPA each year, and a 2360 on the SAT."

Dean: "Alright then, lets get these forms filled out..."
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Noun
1: A place to spend all of the money you inherited from your grandparents dying.
2:Pure torture, too much homework, an insane amount of pressure

3:A brainwashing torture chamber
4:No weed ):
5:NO FUCKING REFUND BITCH
All meanings also work together
During summer: Wow, I can't wait to go to this amazing new school! It has to be good if I spent $20K!
First day of school: Uuuummm refund maybe?
A few weeks in: I guess ill just end it all now. Private school killed me and now ill...
by Unlisted_games27 December 13, 2022
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I'm not going to ignorantly insult private schools in the U.S.A however I truly believe they are not as good as public.

- It costs money to get in, one idiot wrote a definition and said "Oh they are cheap like 20,000 - 125,000 dollars" news flash retard not everyone has that kind of money

- It stresses the point that money is EXTREMELY important and that nothing else matters

- Full of W.A.S.P's that look down on Blacks, Italians, Asians, and Hispanics.

- They are foreced to wear the same uniforms, conformity much?

- People that do have scollarships have to mantain an A+ average or they get kicked out, imagine hows stressfull that is

- They have a much smaller pouplation of the school, which means less oppertunities for making friends, having big parties, getting to know different people and means that gossip/drama is much greater because everyone knows everyone else's buissness.

- They are used to escape schools with minorities

- They think they are better
Private schools premote racisim, conformity, and ignorance.
*** I am not saying that everyone who goes there is a racist, conformist, and ignorant.
by Jersey Kid December 24, 2007
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snob factory - paid for by snobs, generates snobs
Private school kid: I'm better than you! Bow down to ME!
Public school kid: Go to hell, asshole!
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An alternative to sending your kids to school with black kids.
mom: Public schooling??? The children there are dark and carry guns!! You kids are going to private school.
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