[HPforGrownups] Masters, mistresses and teachers. The UK heirarchy.

Bart Lidofsky bart at moosewise.com
Mon Oct 26 14:54:54 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 188279

Geoff wrote:
> When I was in secondary school in the 1950s, in the grammar 
> school which I attended, we would refer to teachers as either 
> 'masters' or 'teachers'. The reason was that, at that time the UK 
> schools were roughly one-third single-sex boys, one third 
> single-sex girls and the remaining third mixed. 

Bart:
    I didn't realize that there were so many hermaphrodites in Britain. 
I wonder why there weren't more of them at Hogwarts.

    Bart





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