The masters moved from room to room through their time at The
Institute. Below is a table extracted from the Green Books and from
contributions from some of the boys and staff members.
The Green Books don't actually list the Rooms as such, however they do show
the Form Organisation and from 1930 there is a list of the Staff, alphabetically
- giving a Room Number.
At the bottom of the table, are some statistics on school, form and master
numbers .... although definitional differences over the years make these numbers
dangerous to use for analysis, it is interesting to see how things changed over
the years. It is very difficult to work out what the real pupil facing FTE
teaching capacity was ... teaching value is proportional to the
number of teachers that you throw at the students (satire) ...
probably the type of comprehensive, "it's just a meat factory with a 5-8
year incubative production line" sort of argument, that caused the
demise of the school !
The room numbering does not seem totally consistent each year, so I have detailed
the nomenclature verbatim. Make of it what you will. The
inconsistency was highlighted by this interesting
tale, recalled by Fred Bilson as follows ...
"JRE ( The Baz ) only had one Staff meeting a year- at the start of the Autumn Term to
give out the timetables- you had no chance to complain about them then.
One day he announced that he had mistakenly described Room 1 as Room 2 and
vice versa. To correct this, the caretaker was currently changing over the
numbers on the rooms concerned.
A rare Kafkaesque moment.
The hand that signed the paper felled the city.
The information
supplied by the boys and masters has been edited to fit with this format.
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