"Gold" towns such as Stowe, with popular ski resorts, or Manchester, with dozens of designer discount stores and three ski mountains, easily topped up the meagre state contribution to pay for extra-splendid schools.
The backlash reinvigorated the campaign, and the town built a splendid new school, whose need is questioned to this day.
I went to Hvar as an accidental tourist last summer, accompanying my 8-year-old son, Joseph, who enrolled as a cello student in the splendid Uzmah (Upbeat) music school in Hvar.
At all school levels, splendid and exhaustive drawings and environmental models were produced.
Private schools should end their "splendid isolation" and work with state schools, according to chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw.
"It's a splendid idea to run the school system out of a magnificent building," he said.
New York's mosaic of cultures offers Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy a splendid opportunity to create true bilingual education.
The six great schools became enormously wealthy, enriching their buildings with splendid architectural decoration, as at the Great School of San Marco (founded c. 1260, rebuilt after a fire 1487 95; now a hospital), with its trompe l'oeil marble panels.
When she came to take me from school, I wanted to be that kind of splendid, different woman".
If choice works for America's splendid universities, why not try it on those dreadful high schools?The two main reasons offered are realpolitik and federalism.
