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The author discusses school finance in Great Britain, rather than a competitive athletic culture, as the key reason for independent schools producing a high number of Olympic-quality athletes as compared to state schools, and notes use of class prejudice in Great Britain's politics.

Reports on the controversy between the British Labour party and the public schools over the assisted places scheme in Great Britain. Four independent schools that received more than a million pounds each in 1992-1993; Opposition by Labor to the means-tested scheme introduced by the Conservatives in 1981; Introduction of the scheme by the former education secretary Mark Carlisle in the 1980 Education Act.

Reports on the opposing views of British grant-maintained school heads over the new funding system. Criticism of the Common Funding Formula (CFF); Clamor for needs-based funding formula.