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Couple of fic questions:

1. Anybody got the details for Remix Redux? I know we have to email it somewhere, but where? And is there a particular header?

2. Do American schools have an assistant head teacher? Schools here would have a Vice or Deputy Principal. Also, would there be a school office? Would the principal have his own secretary?

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Here's a link about the remix:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/remixredux/3299.html

and most schools have Vice Principals and the Principal himself might have a secratary but there would be a school secratary. Usually has his own office. IME :)

2. Do American schools have an assistant head teacher? Schools here would have a Vice or Deputy Principal. Also, would there be a school office? Would the principal have his own secretary?

American public schools generally have a Principal and an Assistant Principal; the front office generally has a secretary who serves both (depending on the size of the school; larger schools=more employees).

The private school Little Tree attends has a Director, an Accountant, and two Owners (who are also teachers). No secretaries.

Yes, there's a Vice Principal in most schools here. Yes, there's an office, which would be the central point for getting notes, checking in and out for doctor visits, and behavioral problems. The principal's secretary would generally be the secretary for the office, I think, handling most of the paperwork.

wisteria_ would be a far better person to ask.

I went to a small school -less then 40 in my graduating class. There was only the principal and she had her own office within the main school office. There was one secretary for the principal and the office in general. She took care of everyone.

Maybe not the best example.

1.) No clue. On to 2.

2.) I can't speak for all schools, but I can certainly tell you how mine worked. The concept of a head teacher is unfamiliar, unless you're meaning that as "principal." Certainly we had one, although he'd never do anything so mundane as teach.

Yes, we had vice principals -- called assistant principals, probably because that's more PC (and believe me, my high school was all about the PC.) Owing to the size of my school, we actually had several assistant principals -- one for each grade, plus a few more specialized assistant principals.

In our case, there wasn't just one office, but actually four or five scattered throughout the building. The guidance office, attendance office, and principal's office (and yes, he had his own secretary) were together in one part, then each of the assistant principals had separate offices elsewhere in the building.

2. Yeah, a Vice Principal. In my schools growing up, the Vice Principal was usually in charge of discipline, so he/she would be the one seriously misbehaving students would be sent to. There were a few secretaries in our school, in a central office between the Principal and Vice Principal's private offices. One of them might have been the Principal's particular secretary, but not so's we'd notice. They dealt with notes to get out of class, took the parents' calls about sick days, relayed messages to students, and generally did the paperwork. That whole place was referred to as the office.

There was also the Guidance Department down the hall, consisting of people who helped plan and coordinate schedules, and advised about colleges/post-grad plans, and we just called that place Guidance. There was a secretary there as well.

But since every school is organized and officiated differently, according to size and town and all that, I think any way you described it would work, as long as you didn't use "head teacher" or "headmaster." *g*

Great, thanks! Getting lots of good info from people.

..it's quite sad that normally I'll wing it but for a fluffy Buffy/Connor AU I'll actually do at least some degree of research *g*

Hey, I've actually been known to see my stepmom's Mother Jones magazine and think, "Ooh, when she's done with that, I want it," specifically because it had an article tangentially related to something in an in-progress fic of mine. It all depends on the fic. *g*

The elementary schools I went to just had principals. The high school had an assistant principal too, who mostly handled discipline. (vice I've heard too, but not deputy. Doesn't mean someone doesn't have it, though.) There would definitely be a school office and a secretary in it. She's often not the principal's private secretary, and works for several administrators. Sometimes there are a couple. Depends on the size of the school.

Mer

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