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A small note on British school terminology

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And then there were none. Well, sort of

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Aug

16th

2024

A small note on British school terminology · 1:19am August 16th

You can't have a female headmaster, at least not in Britain you can't. I've seen it used that way a few times now, including in excellent stories, and it's always thrown me off for a second, so I'm wondering whether Americans use the term in a more gender-neutral way. But here, it's not like "chairman" which in the past was sometimes used even when the post was filled by a woman. In this country, a female head is a headmistress. The gender-neutral term is "headteacher" or just "head". ("Principal" is used to some extent here but isn't always a direct synonym for head, so beware.)

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