Talk:House system

message: I deleted the initial entry, on the grounds that it was irrelevant and inaccurate. The house system did not originate at Lawrenceville, although it certainly exists there. The house system originated in the British public school tradition, and this article should definitely have that focus. Also, some of the Lville-centered information was inaccurate and spotty. --Dablaze 09:19, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
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I've merged the histories, so it may seem a little odd, because the content was all moved to House system whilst most, but not all, of the history was at House (school); further, I have moved it to House System, as that would be the appropriate term in BE, AIUI.
James F. (talk) 19:33, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK, House System is not a proper noun, so I have moved it back to house system. -- ALoan (Talk) 16:01, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: Can anyone compare it? I mean, the Japanese system seems not as "deep" as the house system, but it could have been inspired by... nihil 21:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison with Japanese Club system... 

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message: Actually, the house system in the UK is (in my experience) almost exclusive to public schools, with the  similar structure in state and grammar schools called "Forms" or something else. --RaphaelBriand (talk) 23:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. "Forms" is an obsolete word for year groups. Many state secondaries use years as their main way of grouping students for tutorials and pastoral work but in others the house system is used. Virtually always the teaching groups are comprised of students within one year. The intermediate layer of management may be "heads of years" or "heads of houses". The governors and the head decide which approach to take. David Miliband, when he was the secretary of state, made some statements in favour of house systems. It is seen as a way of breaking up the large size of the average comprehensive into a set of more human-scale establishments. Itsmejudith (talk) 16:02, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

text: In my vocabulary, indeed that used by my school at the time, a "form" is a group of pupils roughly equivalent to "class".  Typically, this would be a subdivision of a year group, and may or may not have any relation to houses (see below).  Each form would have a tutor and be together for tutorial sessions and lessons in the core subjects. -- Smjg (talk) 00:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  State/Public 

message: "In a world with absentee parents more and more children require schools to look after their basic physical, social and emotional needs. Learning can only take place when these needs are being met, so it is natural for the school to provide this care."
This statement is pure opinion, isn't it?  I'm really not sure what the procedure is for marking this, or whatever, so I'm putting my question up here. --gejyspa (talk) 16:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absentee parents? 

message: "In the case of a day school, however, the word 'house' refers only to a grouping of pupils, rather than to a particular building."
I think we need to look at this more closely.  What concrete groupings houses relate to, if any, varies from school to school, not just on a boarding vs. day school basis.
For example, at the day/boarding school I attended, houses were just an abstract grouping of pupils, and the only real significance was that occasionally sports competitions would be held between them.  It had nothing to do with where you are accommodated or what class you are in.  At my sister's secondary school, on the other hand, houses determined the grouping of students into forms: each form was an intersection of a house and a year group.  There would also on occasion be intra-house events such as music concerts.
What other examples are there?  How best can we improve the article to reflect these facts? -- Smjg (talk) 23:58, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship of houses to concrete groupings