Total tangent but the public&#x2F;private school thing is one of history.<p>When there were no schools at all, wealthy English would have &quot;private&quot; tutors at home.  Then schools became popular - one would go to a school with other rich children, which was &quot;public&quot; compared to home tutoring.  When state funded schools arrived, they needed to distinguish between the phrase &quot;public&quot; school and &quot;state funded&quot; school.<p>In the USA, the concept of a &quot;public&quot; school was the norm by then, so they never bothered using &quot;public&quot; to distinguish them, so when state funded schools arrived private and public became the other way round.<p>So simply put, the USA was already a socialist paradise by the time they came to name their schools