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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.

Umm... my 6th year was 140 at the beginning of the year, probably fell to about 110ish by the end though. And I go (went!) to a state comprehensive.

Pretty much anyone could be a prefect in 6th year, they only had to fill out a form and occasionally do grubby duty (i.e. try and stop kids taking food out the cafeteria).

We got a tiny common room next to the toilets. It smelt very bad (the cleaners refused to clean it) and I tried to avoid it as much as possible.

'An interest in school politics?' It's a High School for God's sake. I can only speak from my own experience but anyone that thought school politics was going to be interesting was in for a shock. In five years of being on the school council the only interesting thing that came up was whether or not the fifth and sixth years should get lockers.

Ditto for ours - we had a very bitter campaign in L6th where everyone was trying to do as much as they could "for the school" (i.e. for themselves to look good so the Head would notice them) in the run-up to Head Girl/Boy interviews - I got mixed up in it and it really wasn't nice - completely shattered my confidence when I didn't even get an interview for the job. Took me a long time to get over that

At first our was just a bit of fun, but in the 6 weeks leading up to the interviews/elections things got very nasty. Lots of cloak and dagger stuff and secret handshakes, the house set-up didn't help either. Each candidate could guarantee complete support from their own House, but as there was only 4 serious candidates and 11 Houses there was a lot of votes up for grabs. It wasn't pleasant to watch, some of the smear campaigns were unacceptable, to discredit someone to such an extent over a relatively minor thing was atrocious.

Well, ours wasn't decided by public vote, as the years were really too small so that friendship groups really could dominate the whole proceedings. This, however, meant that selection was based on the Headmasters' favourites, and boy did he make them! I tried, and considering I had an absolutely impeccable record, I was rather upset when I wasn't even looked at. Headmaster only seemed to know my name when it suited him - e.g. when they wanted to use my getting into Cambridge for some cheap publicity .

I think we were about 3rd for Edinburgh schools, about 30th overall. I do go to one of the better one, its got a really middle class catchment areas and is oversubscribed.

I don't know why a lot of people stayed on for 6th year- most people have unconditionals and annoy me in their I dont need to any work attitude- although I would probably be like that if I hadn't got into Oxford.

In my school you are basically forced to take at least 3 subjects, otherwise they won't admit you into 6th year. Most people ended up doing a few AH and a few highers, oh and quite a few took one block a week HE cooking. They ended up with massive classes in some subjects- i think about 30 people took AH history and 18 took AH english- much bigger classes than they are used to.

We had 5 columns. One was sciences/languages, social subjects, creative/maths, technical/english and then random elective. I didn't get to do the subjects i wanted, they refused to change the timetables, they were rigidly enforced. People also had the choice of going to college for a subject. I don't know of anyone in my year though who ended up with a full timetable though.

My friend has a badge maker and was going to make us all personalised prefect badges.
Mine: "It's got to beeeeee......PREFECT"

But I won't take anything less Hehehehe

Being a prefect is great fun. The midgets don't know that only 6th year prefects can log people .

Really? I always think I act like a four year old. What makes you think I seem older.


BTW , 600th post! Woop! Woop! (note: that wasn't wop! wop! I am not a robot from Kricket )

I punctuate?
I never use punctuation online! I barely even capitalise things (just talk to me on msn and you'll see how bad I am for it ).