James as head boy (Re: Voldemort's Intentions & Snape's Expectations (Hagrid))

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 189885

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > Can you cite an instance of an English school where this occurred to your
> > knowledge?
> 
> Bart:
>  Just looking through the Internet (my knowledge is more in 
> Commonwealth schools), I quickly found a reference:
> 
> http://sixthformstjames.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/head-boy-visits-wellington-college/

Geoff:
Looking at that link, I sense that many of those there are from the public 
sector and not the state sector. I was rather concerned about the title when 
it was capitalised. I think "head of school" rather then "Head of School" might
make the thing clearer. I presume that state school representatives might be 
a new breed from the new Academies. Just for friends outside the UK, the 
concept of the Academy school came from the Labour government and is a 
state school which is independent of the Local Education Authority (LEA) and 
is directly funded by central government.

Actually, we've drifted OT. I stand by my observation that James would have 
had to be a prefect to be Head Boy. We are looking at the situation when he 
was at Hogwarts and he would have been in the Upper Sixth in 1977/78 
when that set up would have been almost universal.