The PublicSchoolsAct 1868 was legislation passed by the UK Parliament to regulate the nine major UK boys' schools.
The Act removed the schools from any direct responsibility of the government, granting them their independence and instating a board of governors for each, and led to the relaxation of the curriculum, from the previously-mandated, wholly Classics-based one, to a broader academic span.
The Act having given the description of "Publicschool" to a few exclusive and distinguished institutions, many lesser schools hurried to associate themselves by adopting the term, which remains in common use in England to describe independent senior schools.
In most English-speaking nations (but not England or Wales), a publicschool is a school that is financed and run by the government and does not charge tuition fees in order for children to attend.
The schools and their representative associations prefer the term "independent schools", but the news media in England and common usage often refer to them by the traditional name of "publicschools".
Publicschool is normally split up into three stages: Primary (Elementary) School (Kindergarten to 4th or 5th grade), Junior High (Intermediate, or sometimes "Middle") School (5th or 6th to 8th) and High School (9th to 12th), with some less populated communities incorporating high school as 7th to 12th.
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