Talk:Doane Academy

Independent / Private
It is tautologous to say that this (or any) school is "an independent private school". In US terminology, a private school may be part of another body (e.g. a church) but an independent school is (literally) independent. Both types of school are self-funded (through tuition fees, endowment etc) and both are free of state control. In the US, all independent schools are private schools but not all private schools are independent.

To say it is an independent school also means it must be a private school; to use both terms in the same sentence is like saying the Atlantic is a broad wide ocean. Doane is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the National Association of Independent Schools. Having stated that it is an independent school, there is no need to say it is a private school; indeed to describe it as an "independent private school" is poor English.

(The US usage is, not unusually, exactly the opposite of the UK use of the terms; in the UK, all private schools are independent but not all independent schools are private.) Misha An interested observer of this and that 12:39, 11 December 2016 (UTC)