OoP: UK School, HB => Prefect? (was Re: ADMIN OOP: READ THIS FIRST most Frequent

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
>  
 did anyone find 
> that 
> > a head boy could be chosen who was not also a prefect?
> 
> ::Pip!Squeak holds hand up Hermione style::
> 
>  Me! Me!
> 
> Mine was a single sex comprehensive, so rather than Head Girl/Boy, 
> we had Head Girl, Deputy Head Girl. I was Deputy Head Girl, having 
> never been a prefect.
> 
> This was probably because school rules said that Prefects were 
> chosen by the staff, whereas Head Girl/Deputy Head Girl were 
elected 
> by the students. 
> 
> But the point is that there's a variety of rules, and not all 
> British schools insist that only Prefects are eligible for Head 
> Girl/Boy post. 
> 
> Pip

So, are the Head Boy and Head Girl sort of like the student body 
president? Though in US schools, the student body president is 
usually just one person (either male or female, though I suppose 
there could be co-presidents). It sounds, though, like the prefects 
and head boy/head girl deal more with keeping order in the school. Do 
British schools have student councils like U.S. schools do?

Anne U
(trying not to think of theastrals, because I'd be able to see them)