oliver2002

With my two sons now going to school I find many parallels to FT... at the first parent teachers meeting last year 2-3 parents wanted to become the parents speaker immediately, so they got elected. They are busy liasing with the school management, organising things, feeling important etc. The other parents are happy somebody is doing it. For the younger sons class its the complete opposite, nobody really stepped forward and in the end somebody was nearly randomly chosen to do it. They go about it in a minimalist pragmatic way.

Either way school management is happy somebody is involved and gives non-binding input on how to run things.

Alternatively you could say the mods are the hall monitors, TB the student council and the regulars are the cool kids that hang out in a certain corner of the school yard and pretty much ignorant of any structure(s) that may exist. And then there are 000s of students who go to school and don't come in contact with either of the three groups because there is simply no need.@:-)