The governor's child is a strange beast, and yet almost entirely, but not quite, predictable. Best grades, best Sunday smile and a 4% probability of saying the word 'social' in sane conversation.
Teachers suck up to GC's, and GC's suck up back, just to keep the relationship running smoothly when in fact both are controlled by the same forces. To make the teacher's life easier, GC's try not to do anything that would warrant any kind of reprimand because they know that even if they did, one would not be given, and the teacher would look like a zombified fool.
Do not confuse with an Elite. The Government enforce SAT scores and ability groups upon the school. Personal prejudice cannot get in the way of this group, although it is baitly just as corrupt.
If you still can't quite picture a GC, imagine Martin Prince
from Bart's class in The Simpsons.
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Yes, the motto "Governors Girls Get Good Grades" proved to be true. And an extended version would probably go:
Update 27/2/1999: Perhaps we weren't being completely fair. The GC concentration at a recent "students selected to see the OFSTED inspectors" wasn't high. However, it wasn't low, either. Oh the corruption.
Update 25/3/1999: Oh dear, oh dear. It looks like Elite meetings and underground governmental collusion weren't enough. We had to be told we were overachieving, and to stop revising, or else (at least I think that was it - I wasn't really listening). They even wheeled in the ModelStudents™ to tell us how they did it. And I hear the other end of the scale happened as well, with the Scums being rounded up and given teacher beats. And a DT.