Here's your periodic reminder that public schools are not simply "free." "Public" means they should benefit all of us, whether we have kids enrolled or not. We fund education with our tax dollars because they foster a stronger society. That should shape the policies we pursue.
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Because they're entirely funded by the public whose children attend them. It's a rather archaic usage of the word public.
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i think it's an accident of them having private schools before they had schools for working people. before schools, rich kids were privately tutored. thus "public" school makes sense to distinguish
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"public" in this sense was originally opposed to "local", i.e. a school that would enroll students who didn't live in the immediate vicinity all english schools were "private" when this term arose
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this is incidentally the reason why the quintessential english public school is a boarding school
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For the same reason taverns are called “public houses.” They are open to all comers (provided they have the means).
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