[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron as Head Boy ( was ...My guess about book 7)

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 161338

>
> bboyminn:
>
> One BIG BIG difference between British Schools, especially
> Hogwarts, and normal American schools, is that the British
> schools in question are Boarding Schools. Students don't
> go home at the end of the day and become both the parents
> and societies problem. At a boarding school the school is
> responsible for the students health, safety, wellbeing,
> and recreational diversions 24 hours a day.


montims:
I don't quite understand this.  Hogwarts is a boarding school, but most
schools in Britain are day schools, and ALL schools in Britain, to the best
of my knowledge, have head boys and girls, and prefects.  We also had those
in my primary school, with obviously lesser responsibilities.

The wonder to me is still that American schools do not have them...


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