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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by CaptainZapp on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:01AM (#38217437)
Submitter here

I didn't want to editorialize, so I used the original title.

I changed "free school" to "charter school" which may make contextually more sense.

I hope that's acceptable.

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:13AM (#38217514)
"Charter school" doesn't mean the same thing in different English speaking countries.
Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mynameisvlad on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:23AM (#38217575)
The English Wikipedia page for “charter school” specifically talks about friskola as an example of one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:13AM (#38219061)
Wikipedia is using the US meaning of the word for some reason.

I'm don't think translating "firskola" to UK English as "charter school" would be correct, just like no one uses the term "charter school" to refer to institutions in the UK.

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mynameisvlad on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:39PM (#38223505)
Maybe because it’s the common definition of the world for majority of English speakers. The UK is not the end all be all of the English language. Something can be a common term everywhere else in the world.

If nobody ever uses the term in the UK, then why would its definition matter or be different?

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:19PM (#38224683)
English is a second language for many Europeans and we tend to use the British variant.

It matters because the original title was changed to a term only popular in one country.

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mynameisvlad on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:30PM (#38234200)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/charter-...

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...

There is only one definition. If someone doesn’t know the term, they can look it up. Your original comment claimed that it means different things in different countries, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. The term seems like the appropriate English translation, even if it doesn’t exist in the UK.

Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by dontlaugh on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:35PM (#38234783)
Or the original translation from the article in a UK newspaper could be kept, by just keeping the original title.
Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by trealira on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:02AM (#38217847)
> The current system, in place since a few decades, is akin to a voucher system. I.e. the funding is ultimately via the taxpayer, but through different organizations.

As an American, this sounds like exactly like a charter school system is. Or do you mean that the word is used differently outside America in other anglophone countries? From looking up the term online, it seems like it's mainly an American term.