Two school assemblies stand out in my memory
When Mrs Wager, the elderly deputy head, fell off the stage and broke her hip. Mad laughter by the kids then screaming by Adolf Finer the head master, to shut up and go back to out classes. More laughter as we all trooped out.

The time when the prefects were presented to the rest of the school. The head teacher should just have announced that these particular pupils are the ones who should be specially bullied for the next year. He should have chosen the psychos to be the kapos, rather than those who were working hard. I din't wear my badge.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 14 Jun 2013, 10:33, 2 replies)

Or deputy headmistress took a dive off the stage once too.
I think she only twisted her ankle though.
(Woodlouse say it with flowers. Send her a Triffid, Fri 14 Jun 2013, 11:22, closed)

This is one of the reasons for which I avoided being a prefect at all costs.
The other one was that, at my school, prefects were clearly unpaid temps responsible for doing all the tedious and mundane tasks that teachers deemed were beneath them (supervising the lunch queue, making sure no-one was inside during breaktime when they were supposed to be outside, etc.). Apparently it was all worth it though because the school took all the prefects out to Wimpy at the end of the year. Ahem.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:51, closed)