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They do exist, very much. At some schools they are year 11s (at the two local comps they have year 11 prefects despite having 6th forms). At my school they were U6ths - nearly everyone became a house prefect, but we didn't really have to do much apart from take prep occasionally. Then there were the School Prefects, who were the "elite" - the heads of each House plus one or two chosen extras. I was never one of them and was greatly pissed off about it, but I got into Cambridge and none of them did, so clearly not that important!

We had the normal House prefects, who did all the everyday stuff: lunch duty, stair duty, that sort of thing. The Senior House prefects (or cocksuckers as we called them) who did the more formal stuff like help out at parent evening and general Housey stuff. At the top, there was the "Captain of the School" (Head Boy) and the senior committee, who did all the school wide stuff.

I guess it all depends on the size of your school year. There was only about thirty in my school who stayed on to sixth year ( the final year of the scottish system which isn't considered necessary for applying to university ) so I knew all of them and was friends with most of them. The 'head boy' was one of my best friends so there wasn't really any call for animosity. It was just another half interesting thing to put on your CV/UCAS form which the reality of was very, very gay.

My school was a bit like an Oxbridge college, you had some people who really got involved and paid a huge interest in school politics. Others who just wanted to put it in there personal statement; so cared when it came to elections, but after that didn’t really bother. And the rest you just though it was all a big popularity contest and a waste of time.

Some of the campaigning for Head Boy got nasty though; some took it very very seriously and were willing to do pretty much anything to win. Same type of people you find in the Oxford Union; friend one minute, enemy the next; I left them all to it.

At my school the prefects are arranged into three teams and headed up by three team leaders (strangely enough). The headboy is nearly always a team leader and quite often the team leaders form headboy and two deputies.

Prefects get to swan around in silver badges, make miscreants (or anybody they have a disdain for) stand up in the assembly hall - a sure fire way of getting them blasted by the Head of Year . Best of all, we get to issue essays to younger boys and they have to complete them, or face detention!

The compromise, for such lofty authority , is that each prefect team (mentioned earlier), has to go on duty every third week. The duties, to which everybody in the team is assigned one (or more if the team leader dislikes them

The Headboy is a bit of a cock-suck role to be fair, you have to walk into assembly like the Headmaster's bouncer and then stand in a prominent position at the front of the hall (by the teachers). Although the role does have its merits - chief of which would be selecting a prefect (that you dont like, though it has to rotate) to do the GAYEST duty bar-none, the Assembly reading to the whole school.

The prefect body used to constitute a separate registration group, but this was stopped as it was (In the HM word's) 'deemed demoralising to those not selected as prefects' (and because the worst affected forms were left with all of four people, lol) - pretty harsh really, because most my mates are prefects and my registration group is shitters.

I know that in the past at my school, there used to be a Prefect common-room, does anybody still have that (and if so, is it any good)?

I know that in the past at my school, there used to be a Prefect common-room, does anybody still have that (and if so, is it any good)?

Why would they want to segregate themselves off from the rest of the students? Not very fun.

[ Prefects get to ] make miscreants (or anybody they have a disdain for) stand up in the assembly hall - a sure fire way of getting them blasted by the Head of Year . Best of all, we get to issue essays to younger boys and they have to complete them, or face detention!

I know that in the past at my school, there used to be a Prefect common-room, does anybody still have that (and if so, is it any good)?

Nah, we tried to puch for a sixth years ( that's the final year in the Scottish system which tends to be very, very small ) common room but they knocked us back on the grounds that it would have meant cutting the Staff room in half. ( Before anyone thinks we were being unreasonable our school had a dozen smaller staff rooms scattered about it - pretty much one for each subject group ).

Thats rather pants, at my school we have a separate sixth form block (shared with the girls school next door, probs for about 450 people) , of which 70% of the internal space is taken up by two rather large common rooms. There is one upstairs common room - the 'quiet one' (where the introverts read books and do their thing). And a downstairs one which has pool tables, telly, stereo, fussball, soft seating etc - where everyone else hangs.

Yeah... I've got to say doing that is far gayer than reading out in an assembly could ever be. Because I would rather bum-rape the headmaster on stage and get the piss ripped out of me by the whole school

Yeh, well thats your opinion - not mine.

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