>Kinda like MacDonald's millions sold < s >. I assume that the number is cumulative.
I thought so too, because the numbers are quite high. But I was told that the number refers to
currently registered students. And, the numbers do go down sometimes.
On the other hand, half a million students for ca. 10,000 local academies seems to me a somewhat low average per academy.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)