I was an unpopular kid and wearing the badge didn’t help!
Never had them at any school I went to (80s and 90s)
When I was a prefect I didn’t even have to do anything except help some year 7s read. Easiest job of my life
we always made fun of whoever had these lol
My school has them still
The schools not-so-secret police. Absolutely unlikeable grass’s, even at weekends.
I thought prefects only existed in private schools until I went to uni and people said it’s apparently a common thing in state schools too ¯_(ツ)_/¯ not in my area
Still have mine from 1967/8. Blue and silver 🙂
Still a thing in private and state schools in South Africa. Headboy, headgirl, prefects, etc.
Bender badge.
I remember them trying to push me around
I think I have my Librarian and Playleader badges somewhere?
Never was a prefect or Head Girl (or House Captain)
The entire focking series is just „a British thing“ 😂 It’s not fantasy, it’s a boarding school story in a highly romanticised version of a boarding school with some fantasy flavour text, that’s it.
I was one so I could stay inside at lunch, never enforced shit, which ended up meaning I was a very popular prefect
Badge wankers
They all ended up as mid-level management dressed in Marks and Spencer’s.
Never had any friends any way so being a prefect suited me fine , lippy kids couldn’t argue with me 😎
My first day in high school I had no clue what it meant.
Some big prick was flashing a “Prefect” badge in my face and I thought it was a funny joke, as in he’s perfect but spelled it incorrectly.
Yeah. Are they no longer a thing?
It was literally a badge of honour in our school.
Early 00s my badge was red iirc 🙄
A time-honoured tradition in our school was on the first day back after the summer break – the kind of kid who definitely wasn’t a prefect put on stolen prefect badges and then went and found all the new 1st years to bully.
Flourished as though it was some kind of warrant card.
Prefects were absolute knobs both as kids and adults.
Weirdly, our Head Boy was a proper nice guy.
All I know is Ron was made one and I was a bit gutted for Harry.
I still have my Prefect badge from 2004/05
Me and my mate were annoyed we weren’t made prefects due to other friends bragging about it.
Following year we realised we hadn’t missed out-we could roam around freely at break and lunch time while our mates were having to do tedious ‘jobs’.
Bonus was when one of the prefects threatened me with detention, I laughed and walked off 😂😂
Haha. The school dossers are outing themselves hard in this thread.
My school had a brilliant brainwave of putting the knobheads and bullies, as well as the geeky kids in prefect positions, the logic being that having that responsibility would sort them out.
I went exactly as any sane person could predict.
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My sister was a Prefect. I was not .
We referred to them as the pricks instead
Ahh yes
I was a prefect and had the little red badge.
I was an unpopular kid and wearing the badge didn’t help!
Never had them at any school I went to (80s and 90s)
When I was a prefect I didn’t even have to do anything except help some year 7s read. Easiest job of my life
we always made fun of whoever had these lol
My school has them still
The schools not-so-secret police. Absolutely unlikeable grass’s, even at weekends.
I thought prefects only existed in private schools until I went to uni and people said it’s apparently a common thing in state schools too ¯_(ツ)_/¯ not in my area
Still have mine from 1967/8. Blue and silver 🙂
Still a thing in private and state schools in South Africa. Headboy, headgirl, prefects, etc.
Bender badge.
I remember them trying to push me around
I think I have my Librarian and Playleader badges somewhere?
Never was a prefect or Head Girl (or House Captain)
The entire focking series is just „a British thing“ 😂 It’s not fantasy, it’s a boarding school story in a highly romanticised version of a boarding school with some fantasy flavour text, that’s it.
I was one so I could stay inside at lunch, never enforced shit, which ended up meaning I was a very popular prefect
Badge wankers
They all ended up as mid-level management dressed in Marks and Spencer’s.
Never had any friends any way so being a prefect suited me fine , lippy kids couldn’t argue with me 😎
My first day in high school I had no clue what it meant.
Some big prick was flashing a “Prefect” badge in my face and I thought it was a funny joke, as in he’s perfect but spelled it incorrectly.
Yeah. Are they no longer a thing?
It was literally a badge of honour in our school.
Early 00s my badge was red iirc 🙄
A time-honoured tradition in our school was on the first day back after the summer break – the kind of kid who definitely wasn’t a prefect put on stolen prefect badges and then went and found all the new 1st years to bully.
Flourished as though it was some kind of warrant card.
Prefects were absolute knobs both as kids and adults.
Weirdly, our Head Boy was a proper nice guy.
All I know is Ron was made one and I was a bit gutted for Harry.
I still have my Prefect badge from 2004/05
Me and my mate were annoyed we weren’t made prefects due to other friends bragging about it.
Following year we realised we hadn’t missed out-we could roam around freely at break and lunch time while our mates were having to do tedious ‘jobs’.
Bonus was when one of the prefects threatened me with detention, I laughed and walked off 😂😂
Haha. The school dossers are outing themselves hard in this thread.
My school had a brilliant brainwave of putting the knobheads and bullies, as well as the geeky kids in prefect positions, the logic being that having that responsibility would sort them out.
I went exactly as any sane person could predict.
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