[SadisticSid]

Presumably they're just pissed that they have to share their space with another school and are looking for (invalid) excuses not to have to do it.

My friend tells me some Catholic schools are state-funded, and some are privately owned and funded. If they're the latter they'd have good cause for being pissed off at the state for plonking their own rubbish schools next to them.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by SadisticSid
Presumably they're just pissed that they have to share their space with another school and are looking for (invalid) excuses not to have to do it.

My friend tells me some Catholic schools are state-funded, and some are privately owned and funded. If they're the latter they'd have good cause for being pissed off at the state for plonking their own rubbish schools next to them.

Well, this is a case of new schools IIRC, so it wouldn't affect the non-state ones, same as for a non-denominational* private school.  It is, admittedly, partly to cut costs so they can afford to build these schools.

*typing that word is tiring my fingers, BTW

[Kosh]

Originally posted by vyper
Not really, bar America, it was the democratic systems we built and the same ideas we instilled in the populations of those colonies that helped them break away. It was a natural evolution, if somewhat expedited by the Yanks doing everything during and post ww2 to weaken our hold on it.

And now the US has a fairly large colonial empire right now, compared to anyone else that is.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kosh



And now the US has a fairly large colonial empire right now, compared to anyone else that is.

The US has bases, not colonies - how many countries are actually controlled by the US, bar Iraq and (arguably) Afghanistan?

 The US doesn't export its citizens as the UK did, i.e. it can't be a true colonial power because no-one is willing to leave and live in/administer said colonies.