[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And it makes much more sense, n'est-ce pas?

But I think Honeychile meant the memo about spelling, punctuation and parochial school, not the one about Anglo-Irish animosity. (But does an English public school count as a parochial school equivalent?)

Possibly-they're more likely the equivalent of just plain private schools here. I went to a christian secondary school, I knew a Roman Catholic primary school, all were state schools.
This is my old school: http://www.st-bedes.surrey.sch.uk/