Thank you. You would have thought they could make it less ambiguous than "£14,167 per half [i.e. term; there are three terms in a year]"
There have always been three terms in all schools but a "half" term means something different in the other 99%. Maybe they should have written it in Latin, but before Gandalf points out I would have misunderstood that as well he would be right - Latin was the one GCE I did fail in 1965.
I absolutely hated Latin and our Latin teacher hated me, so it was a surprise that I just scraped a pass. It's not all cushy at colleges like Eaton, despite what many may assume, unless it's changed. I had an expensive private education but the regime was tough.
Monthly exams for the first three years studying 13 subjects. The pass mark was 70% and you were allowed 3 failures after which for each additional failed subject your reward was three strikes on each hand with a whippy cane delivered by a vicious Headmaster. How corporal punishment was ever supposed to improve your learning capacity I'll never know.
The best thing about my school was the fabulous canteen which offered chips everyday - unheard of at the time. Funny what you remember, well apart from "halves"
Edit: For the purpose of clarification BTW, I didn't go to Eton, just a bog standard private school!
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