I wonder if Isadora had any notion of the avalanche of trans-Atlantic queries she was about to unleash? Hope she's still with us, somewhere!
Intermittently, what with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the severe depression and everything, I taught from the 1990s until about 15 years ago when my psychotherapist & my doctor finally persuaded me I was only making myself ill and making more work for them. Trained in two Comps, and later taught for money in one Comp. Don't remember any of those three Comps having houses, but could be wrong. Taught for money in three private schools, all of which had houses, as did the two private schools I attended myself.
In the private system you were in a house throughout your career in that school. You were in a different form each year, e.g. Lower Fourth, Upper Sixth, whatever. Or sometimes IVT, VF, etc., where IV or V denoted your year-group and T or F was the first letter of the form-master's surname. Then, within your year-group, but across all the forms and all the houses, you were in sets for different subjects (Set 1, Set 2, Set 3 etc.), usually but not always according to ability. Sometimes your own form would take some subjects as a form, rather than in sets. But never by houses, in my own experience.
Approximately 26,000 more posts have happened while I was typing this. Apologies for being slow and out of synch...
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