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From: gwc@root.co.UK (Geoff Clare)
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Subject: Re: Kate's school & Katemas
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Date: 27 Jun 91 15:34:51 GMT
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sre017@cck.cov.ac.UK (Andy Semple) writes:

>Sorry to be picky but Kate didn't attend a grammar school,she attended
>a private convent school. Hence her parents paid for her education,

Do you have any supporting evidence for this?  I'm quite willing to
believe that St. Joseph's Senior School, Bexley was a convent school, but
where do you get your information that it was private rather than state
funded?  The only convent school I am familiar with (St. Bernard's in
Southend-on-Sea) was a grammar school at the time when Kate was at school.

>usually a grammar school
>operates on an entrance exam, if you pass this you don't pay.

This is nonsense.  The only requirement for attending grammar school was
that you pass the standard 11+ exam which everyone took at age 11, and
I've never heard of a grammar school that accepted paying students.  In
fact it would probably have been illegal for them to do so.

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