Independent Schools: Regulation of
After my post mentioning the Nottingham High School yesterday, I thought I would make a Prefect headcount:
- Nottingham High School Prefects 1955: 19
- Nottingham High School Prefects 1980-81: 37
Why does regulation always breed like rabbits? Or does it just reflect a growth in entropy?
I should add 3 notes:
- Miss Wagstaff will be pleased to know that she had a namesake in the 1955 cohort.
- The 1980-1 figures ignore 93 (ninety-three) “House Prefects” listed in the School Record, which - bearing in mind that the annual intake was something like 120 boys - seems to be a hell of a lot. House Prefects are (-ish) to Prefects roughly what Mrs Thatcher’s “little Bishops” were to the “big Bishops“.
- I don’t have figures for the school attendance in 1955.
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My school (Birkenhead Insitute High School) made all six formers prefects, so could the increase be down to an increase in those staying on after 16?
Stock crap joke :
3rd year pupil : Why are you called a prefect?
Six Former : Because I’m nearly perfect.