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BID : 60501_VE3LSR
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Subj: RE: Bob VK6BE's comment:Prefect
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From: VE3WBZ@VE3LSR.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : SCHOOL@WW
TO: SCHOOL @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Tuesday,January 17th.,2012 @ 1352hrs EST <JSPT>
<< Quoting VK6BE to SCHOOL @WW >>
> From : VK6BE To : SCHOOL@WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 17-Jan 00:24
> Bid : B00354VK6BE Message # : 60443
> Title : RE: G0TEZ's badge...etc
>
> There are prefects in our high schools who are chosen for their obvious
> talents for leadership, and any that bully students or behave in any
> unseemly manner would immediately lose their badge and their job.
Hello Bob, and Ian...and others;
Thanks Bob for that input. I always wondered how a High school
like the one I went to, noted as a working class technical and trades
could have "Prefects" ? And then too, there seemed no system to
the maddness of their activities. "OK" so they never tagged me for
whatever...it was mostly fear. As a teen I never backed down, not
after public school and the gangs in our neighbourhood.
I had to go to this school until that incident and then transferred
to the other end of the city, where this high school ...no prefects
was the greatest...and I enjoyed my short time there before
graduating.
My father would agree with you on that. After the revenge return to
George Harvey SS, for that hockey game ... I bagged "kooie" the Prefect
slap the puck off the glass in front of the V-Principals face...then
the interschool fireworks and the office, and well they sided with me
the Principal of Northern High School and coach agreed something was
wrong...but well swept under the carpet so to speak... and they laughed
at my antics... the students went wild that day...so many of the other
school my old school and Northern cheered for me, on those two incidents
and I laugh now at it all when I look back....NO Bob...Not invites
from George Harvey SS to any school reunions.
> The primary schools where I taught had student councils which I
> instituted. The kids themselves had elections each year to choose next
> year's Councillors and their choices were usually good ones. The teachers
> also had a vote. The Student Council held weekly meetings attended by me
> and they each reported on their week's activities. Each wore a small
> pin-on metal badge.There was a Head Girl and a Head Boy. The Councillors
> were tyrated with respect by the other students, who after all had elected
> them.
We never had this in public, but it was in high school and I was elected
in the last high school <Northern> I attended... it was also an education
in itself.
> Each Councillor was given a job, his or her responsibility for the year.
> One had to issue sporting gear at recess and sports times and had to check
> it in after the activity finished. Another assisted in the library.
> Another was responsible for checking the school yard for litter and their
> was a duty gang daily whose responsibility was to clean up each day. There
> were about 12 Councillors each with a duty to perform. Only on one
> occasion did I sack a Councillor who was not carrying out her duties.
> These kids (11 and 12 years of age) took their jobs seriously.
> Cheers,
> Bob VK6BE.
>
> [End of Message #60443 from VK6BE]
Aaah BOB... you had them doing the work of the caretaker and that is
a union job here. Our Student Council was meetings with agendas
such as "students rights" which passed and went to a provincial body
and even became a law in this province. None of the activities you
posted we ever did.
In public school each class had the monitor that was selected ...gee
weekly I think...to clean the blackboard and carry the trash to
the basement to be burned. Can not do that now.
Oh well .. Just thought that....now I have never received a invite
for a reunion at Northern either ... I guess because I had this
"tag" over my head, and if for this reason I suspect, then I am glad
to wear this badge.
No regrets... I've entered things in life, and won and lost like
everyone. I know there are those worse off in life then me,
and no guilt feelings, as I have had my say, done whatever
so no regrets... the circle coming right back.
I'd like to go back to night school for other interests, but
then that will have to wait.
ttfn ...
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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