School uniforms - some do, some don't. Secondary schools can legally insist, primary not. Public and private schools are private - others are state. Public schools may derive from originally charitable establishments, and probably have bursaries and scholarships for the less well off, based on merit. Scholarship children, the brighter, were looked down on by those nly there on account of their ancestors' financial skills. Break or play, (recess) - some schools seem to have children playing together, others not, depending on local culture. Boys tend to spend the time playing football (soccer), and some are inimicable to girls joining in. Read "Bill's New Frock" by Anne Fine for an insight.

Archaeological research has indicated that the Romans drove on the left (wagon ruts into and out of a quarry), and the whole of Europe did until Napoleon. Just because everyone else kowtowed to a self appointed emperor doesn't make it right, only the right.

Penny