grammar school

[diamondcutter]

In Britain, there are schools named “grammar school”. I’d like to know whether it’s because students in those schools have to learn grammar.

 

[probus]

In Britain, there are schools named “grammar school”. I’d like to know whether it’s because students in those schools have to learn grammar.

No I'd better leave it to our BrE teachers to explain what they are and why they are called grammar schools.

 

[teechar]

Grammar schools: What are they and why are they controversial?

BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle.

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Grammar school - Wikipedia

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Grammar school | Selective schools, Entrance exams & 11+ tests

Grammar school, in Great Britain, secondary school that offers an academic course in preparation for university entrance and for the professions. Students usually begin attendance at age 12. Before 1902, there was no system of publicly funded secondary education in Great Britain, and those students

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[emsr2d2]

Originally, the term was "gramer scole", taking its name from the fact that such schools taught students the grammatical structures of (mainly) Latin and Greek. The name stuck but it no longer has any particular connection with the teaching of grammar.

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