Masters, mistresses and teachers. The UK heirarchy.

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188282

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > 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.

Geoff:
Don't be thilly. You know what I mean.
:-)