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Discover LudwigThe phrase "comprehensive school about" is not a grammatically correct construction.
It is missing a verb and it is unclear what the intended meaning is. Here are a few possible rephrasings that could be grammatically correct and convey different meanings: - "Comprehensive schools are about providing a well-rounded education for all students." (In this sentence, the verb "are" is added and the meaning is that comprehensive schools have a specific purpose.) - "I am writing an essay about comprehensive schools." (In this sentence, the verb "writing" is added and the meaning is that the speaker is focusing on the topic of comprehensive schools.) - "My child attends a comprehensive school." (In this sentence, the verb "attends" is added and the meaning is that the speaker's child goes to a comprehensive school.) Example: "The government is implementing changes to the curriculum in comprehensive schools."
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We needed members, so we showed a film at the local comprehensive school about a nuclear attack on England.
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At my comprehensive school, from about age 14, I had a great teacher, Mr. Palmer.
The majority of students attended a grammar school 2 (46 %) or a comprehensive school (44.3 %), whereas about 10%% visited a secondary general school or secondary modern school.
As a teenager, however, it wasn't his parent's unyielding politics that pushed him away from them (though he still seems furiously resentful about his comprehensive school education); he simply didn't get on with them.
After writing for Z Cars and Doctor in the House, he managed to sell his idea for a drama series about a comprehensive school to the BBC, plundering his own secondary education and his sense that school had let him down.
The same season included Gotcha (BBC1, 1977), a terrifying version of Barrie Keefe's stage-play about a disillusioned comprehensive school student who takes his headmaster hostage.
"You just don't expect to hear so much about this average comprehensive school where there's lots of different types of people, with different backgrounds, and different interests and styles and music tastes.
And yet the controller of BBC2, a passionate historian who began her education at a comprehensive school in Kent, finds the debate about her channel is being shaped by a space-age figure named after the fags at Repton public school.
Social mobility is often embodied in the comprehensive school pupil who reaches Oxbridge, but what about the school dropout who finished up in a lowly menial job?
Greening, who attended a comprehensive school, said last month that she was "open minded" about the idea of new grammar schools.
Finland underwent wholesale reform about 40 years ago, moving to an entirely comprehensive school system, improving the quality of teacher training and raising the status of the teaching profession.
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