I think your last sentence hits on it exactly -- there isn't.
I've always thought the Chalet as Reformer / Kingscote as Non-reformer played to what the two schools aimed to be to their students -- Kingscote as, rather understandably, an educational institution; Chalet as a way of life. Thus Kingscote has no unwritten set of moral and ethical rules the girls are not only supposed to mirror but to promote; while the Chalet has entrenched standards passed from generation to generation and a collective sense of what's done, and what's not.
For the very reason that Kingscote doesn't have such a strictly defined code, I think the school's less reformist in nature. Because Chalet girls have a very certain sense of What's Right and What's Not, the girls themselves put a lot more effort into ensuring that everyone else is thinking the same, virtuous way and will as a result share in the happy joyfulness of being A Real Chalet Girl. Almost as if the Chalet's a religion, and the girls are evangelists -- while Kingscote's a school, and the girls ordinary schoolgirls.
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Date: 2005-10-17 07:57 pm (UTC)I've always thought the Chalet as Reformer / Kingscote as Non-reformer played to what the two schools aimed to be to their students -- Kingscote as, rather understandably, an educational institution; Chalet as a way of life. Thus Kingscote has no unwritten set of moral and ethical rules the girls are not only supposed to mirror but to promote; while the Chalet has entrenched standards passed from generation to generation and a collective sense of what's done, and what's not.
For the very reason that Kingscote doesn't have such a strictly defined code, I think the school's less reformist in nature. Because Chalet girls have a very certain sense of What's Right and What's Not, the girls themselves put a lot more effort into ensuring that everyone else is thinking the same, virtuous way and will as a result share in the happy joyfulness of being A Real Chalet Girl. Almost as if the Chalet's a religion, and the girls are evangelists -- while Kingscote's a school, and the girls ordinary schoolgirls.
Or something.